They Love StorageNewsletter

At the end and the beginning of each year, all the storage companies seem to sleep and enjoy holidays. About no news to fill our web site. Furthermore it’s not the best period to publish information because journalists are in the same torpidity.

That’s why today we take the opportunity to write about StorageNewsletter.com. It’s not our opinion but what our subscribers think about it.

Of course, we know that storage people prefer to be in good relationship with the storage press. But we got a lot of compliments. If they don’t like StorageNewsletter, they will just avoid to tell us their opinion.

To confirm the success of our three-year old web site, just two figures. At the end of 2009, we registered 22,106 unique visitors (according to Google Analytics). Now it’s 30,525, 38% more.

Here are the emails we received last year:

"I wanted to tell you that it is the easiest to read, and the fastest for me to scan looking for things that I want to spend time on. Great job!"
Mike Workman, Chairman and CEO, Pillar Data Systems (January 2010)

"I read your newsletter every day and find it to be of tremendous value to me personally, and to the storage industry as a whole."
Michael Robinson, Director of Marketing and Communications, GreenBytes (May 2010)

"You do a great job putting together this newsletter!"
Mitch Livingstone, Senior Channel Sales Manager, West, Promise Technology (May 2010)

"You write some excellent articles. I loved the top story yesterday. Why don’t you make your website more social, i.e enable comments."
Jaspreet Singh, Co-Founder and CEO, Druva Software (May 2010)

"Ironiquement, j’ai découvert votre StorageNewsletter chez Seanodes où elle a toujours figuré en bonne place. Aujourd’hui, vous publiez l’article le mieux informé sur la fin de cette entreprise…"
Un ancien salarié de Seanodes (May 2010)

"I have been a loyal reader of your newsletter for a few years now. You do a great job of covering the storage industry."
Rick Friedman, VP, Marketing and Product Management, Terascala (June 2010)

"I have a tremendous amount of respect for StorageNewsletter, in fact over the years it’s been interesting to watch it develop into what in my opinion is probably the only useful storage focused portal."
Marl Klarzynski, CTO, ID7 (July 2010)

"Great job with the newsletter, btw. Everybody in the storage industry reads it (and I know quite a few people, because all my clients are in storage, virtualization, and cloud), and I guess it is not easy to keep up with all the news and also publish them promptly."
Georgiana Comsa, Silicon Valley PR (July 2010)

"Let me start to say we are really happy with your web based StorageNewsLetter. It’s quicker, more ‘frequent" and brings more news… Keep up the good work!"
Axel Lucassen, Managing Director, Freecom (Holding) BV (July 2010)

"I read your newsletter everyday and it is filled with excellent information."
Ralph Schmitt, president and CEO, PLX Technology (July 2010)

"I enjoy the StorageNewsletter and appreciate your coverage."
George Teixeira, CEO, DataCore Software (August 2010)

"I really enjoy reading the StorageNewsletter and I have been doing so for years."
Georgiana Comsa, Silicon Valley PR (August 2010)

"I get your daily reports and I really like them!"
Torrey Loomis, President and CEO, Silverado Systems (September 2010)

"I have been reading your daily storage newsletters. And your work continues to be superb!"
Benjamin S. Woo, Program VP, WW Storage Systems, IDC (September 2010)

"Jean-Jacques Maleval’s StorageNewsletter is a heroic production and both mandatory and interesting reading."
Chris Mellor, Storage Editor of El Reg (November 2010, opinion found on the web)

"I appreciate the work you do on the StorageNewsletter and enjoy it on a daily basis."
Rick Friedman, VP, Marketing and Product Management, Terascala (November 2010)

"Your site is very impressive and its focus on storage is unusual and attractive as well."
Sasha Merigan, PR manager, Thecus (November 2010)

"Thank you for all your hard work and analysis. You really have your mind in this world!"
Donald Tillman, CEO, Safe Data (December 2010)

"Thank you for a great newsletter!"
Oleg Zaboronski, Siglead (December 2010)

"Thank you for your excellent, timely bulletins."
Mike Sharrock, Imation (December 2010)

"We find your newsletter very informative and refer to it’s content frequently."
Steve Gudknecht, Product Manager, Storage Solutions, Elma Electronic (December 2010)

And two more that we received today:

"I enjoyed reading your article on storage startups, very informative."
Steven Umbehocker, CEO, OS NEXUS.

"Happy new year! I just wanted to say that your analysis article is brilliant. A great overview of the storage industry in the past couple of years. It really helps get a clearer view of what’s been going on. Thanks!"
Federica Monsone, PR, A3 Communications.