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2010
year of the SSD bubble?
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storagesearch.com

storage search
11 years - "leading the way to the new storage frontier"

for marketers who aren't scared of mice - email subject: "advertising on storagesearch.com"

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Why should YOU advertise on storagesearch.com?
Many of our advertisers say:- storagesearch.com delivers higher quality readers, more RFQs and lower cost of leads than any other web advertising they have tried (including Google).

Part of the reason is that over 1.3 million unique readers / year use STORAGEsearch.com to find products ranging from SAS storage to million dollar solid state disk accelerators.

Another reason is our readers love our site - and from company founders to professional buyers in government they trust our content - use it to make important strategic decisions and recommend it to their partners and customers.

We're good at ads. We've been selling web ads for over 12 years. They work. That's because we respect our readers - and reject ads which are likely to annoy our readers, or waste their time.

We were the first enterprise storage site online, and we are still the #1 online storage site for most of the important subjects in this market. And despite the hundreds of me-too storage publications that have come into this market - we've continued growing pageviews, readers and market share.

STORAGEsearch offers attractive ad packages for companies spending from around $1,300 a year to $20,000 a year.

Our advertising packages suit busy sales and marketing professionals in companies ranging from VARs to multibillion dollar storage oems. Our "hands-free" classified ads mean you don't even need to design your ad. We do it for you - at no extra charge.

Unless you're scared of mice - or don't believe that the web can generate significant business for your company - then you should contact us to ask for an advertising proposal straight away.
"In the (many) years that TMS has advertised on StorageSearch.com, we've found it delivers high-quality leads without breaking our marketing budget."

James Stinson
Marketing Analyst
Texas Memory Systems

editor's note:- TMS sells the world's fastest storage which connects via SAN or Infiniband. Typical advertised systems cost in the range from $30K to $1.million. They have advertising here continuously since 2001 - and have recently renewed their ad packages for 2009.
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STORAGEsearch.com Pageviews Grew 28%
Editor:- September 1, 2008 - STORAGEsearch.com today updated its monthly list of the top articles and subjects viewed by storage searchers in August.

The top 5 subjects were:-
  1. Disk to disk backup
  2. Solid state disks
  3. Hard drives
  4. 2.5 inch SSDs
  5. Flash - based SSDs
Overall site readership was 28% higher than the year ago period. Pageviews of the most popular article - the SSD Buyers Guide increased 52%.


More info about the top 20 subjects and articles can be viewed on the market research page
Recession... what recession?...................................................
There was no recession for us or our advertisers in 2009.

(Although I admit I was a little bit nervous at the peak of the Credit Crunch in the 4th quarter of 2008. But I needn't have worried.)

What's the secret?

Advertise wisely in fast growing customer segments!



2009 was our best year for web advertising revenue in the past 7 years.

There's no mystery about this.

Web advertising is a scientific process which involves trial and error.

As a result of sustained ad programs which work - and as a result of over 78% increase in top SSD article pageviews - a lot of advertisers have been asking how they can do more with us.

Our overall site readership has increased by significant double digits this year too - despite a decline in some traditional storage markets.

That's why I can spend more time working on unique content, and zero time cold calling ad sales.

I'm very lucky. We've got fantastically successful advertisers and fantastically high reader quality too. How can you not have a good business with that winning combination?

2010 looks like it will be a very good year for StorageSearch.com too.

6 good reasons to advertise on STORAGEsearch.com
  • it works! - Even in a recession. It worked in the IT recession which followed the dotcom bubble, Enron and 9/11 - and is working now too. That's because increasing your incremental communications to thoughtful readers (otherwise known as advertising) - in the right context - affects what they know, what they think and what they buy.
  • if you like our content - and you want to see it continue - that's a good enough reason to support the site with an entry level ad in the region of $1,300 to $2,000.
  • unmatched reader quality! - Our readers include the biggest and most important buyers in the storage market. They come here because it's the best resource on the web.
  • low cost! - Typically a year's permanent visibility costs about the same as distributing a couple of press releases.
  • improve your image! - Become associated with the highest quality web site on the web covering strategic storage market issues.
  • fill black holes in your Google ads! - We don't run Google ads*. So none of your generic web ads reach our readers while they view our content.

    * - exception is in a small number of low volume page used to test how they compare with banner ads.
  • defensive! - advertising blocks competitive ads out from your company profile. If your editorial strategy creates high interest and you're not an advertiser - you're simply providing fertile ground for competitors.
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Some of the hundreds of past advertisers on STORAGEsearch.com

ActionFront Data Recovery
Adtron
AMCC
Arkeia
Attorn
Axstor
Austin Semiconductor
BakBone Software
BiTMICRO
Comax Technology
Computer Expertise Group
Computer Giants
Connexion Point
CRC Data Protection
Curtis
Data Storage Depot
DDRdrive
Disklabs
Diskology
Dynamic Network Factory
Dynamic Solutions International
EasyCo
Extreme Protocol Solutions
Fastora
Fusion-io
Gigaram
Hagiwara Sys-Com
ICS
Idealstor
Ingrasys
Inline
International Microsystems
KingFast
Keystone Memory
Latitude
LSI Logic
Memoright
Memoryx
Memtech
Meritec
Mtron
Nexsan
Norco Technologies
Olixir Technologies
Overland
QSAN Technology
Qualstar
Radiant Resources
Rave Computer
Recurrent Technologies
RunCore
Seagate
SiliconSystems
Solid Access Technologies
Solid Data Systems
StorageHeaven
Systex
Targa Systems
TechnoMages
Texas Memory Systems
Trident Space & Defense
UBIC
Violin Memory
Western Digital Solid State Storage
Many of the world's fastest growing storage companies (future, past and present) have advertised on storagesearch.com

and most of the world's fastest storage companies do too.

We published our 1st daily updated directory of SSD vendors 11 years ago - in 1998 - see SSD Market History).
Advertising info and pricing
Advertising
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When Cheaperbyte's sales manager said
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Click on these links to see pricing and features

  • Classified advertising / advertorial - delivers filtered quality customer pageviews upto 100 times lower cost than search-engine keyword advertising, and upto 10 times lower cost per lead than banner advertising. Users value them as high quality contextual editorial rather than invasive irrelevant ads.

  • Banner Advertising on STORAGEsearch.com - is proven to sell products ranging from low cost Fiber-channel cables upto $100,000 plus enterprise storage systems. Sorry - 100% of our projected banner ad capacity for 2009 has already been sold.
  • new hybrid ads - (started October 2006) - this type of ad looks like a classified ad - but clicks through directly like a banner. It can only be used to link to an online pricing page. Prices start from $2,000 per quarter.
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To order advertising, get a quote or discuss availability for targeted product segments please email Megabyte@STORAGEsearch.com - with advertising on STORAGEsearch in the subject line
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Payment:- You can pay by credit card, check or wire transfer, whichever method works best for your accounting department.
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STORAGEsearch.com's Publisher Turns 16

Editor:- October 2, 2007 - this month is the 16th anniversary of founding ACSL - publisher of STORAGEsearch.com

The storage market, which will generate over $200 billion revenue in 2007, is the most important segment in the computer industry and this is an exciting time to be covering storage as fundamental changes are taking place in the way that enterprises architect their IT infrastructure.

Gone are the days when the processor or the operating system were the primary factors which dictated how everything fitted together. In the future - the levers and gateposts which enable or inhibit fast corporate change will be dictated by how well the storage systems support the data needs of the enterprise.

Just as the internet gave rise to new types of companies which didn't exist before, the new age of content will generate huge markets where the success or failure of the enterprise will be determined by the strength or weakness of its underlying storage systems.

Looking back at the start of my publishing career:- one of the frustrations of publishing a computer market directory in the early 1990s was the fact that new editions were obsolete on the day they were printed. My data collection methodology was to research and update data every day. Soon after it became acceptable to make money on the web - we made plans to switch to a web format - which we did in 1996. Although much has changed on the web in the past decade - one factor has remained unchanged:- people migrate quickly to the sources which give them the best information. Content providers (like us) and content finders (like Google) need each other (even though we compete in the same advertising market) and although search algorithms have improved, I think human editors can still do a better job of collecting together lists of all the important companies in a vertical market.

STORAGEsearch.com has been leading the way to the new storage frontier for 9 years, and before that our SPARC Product Directory helped to shape and inform the needs of the people building the dotcom market. It's been great fun working on these in the past 16 years - and I look forward to reporting on the exciting developments still to come. ...ACSL profile
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contact ACSL, publisher of STORAGEsearch.com today to discuss your options

tel:- +44 (0) 1273 890 060

email:- send us an email subject: STORAGEsearch.com advertising

ACSL can help you grow your business in the storage systems market. We've been helping computer manufacturers in the USA, Europe and Japan grow their businesses using our focused marketing data and publications since 1992.

STORAGEsearch.com - has been leading the way to the new storage frontier since 1998. (And before that, in our earlier Sun SPARC publications we published a SCSI directory since 1992, and a Fibre-channel HBA directory since 1994.)

STORAGEsearch.com was the first enterprise storage portal on the web, the first to cover emerging subjects like iSCSI, SATA and SAS, and the first market authority to recognise and report the disruptive effects of solid state disks on the server market. We have a bigger readership than any other publication in many important storage subjects and are the #1 or #2 storage portal for Solid State Disks, storage manufacturers, storage news, RAID systems, disk to disk backup, storage events and dozens of other storage industry topics.

Our advertisers have included many of the world's fastest growing storage companies.

The storage market is on an upward wave and our readers - who include the world's top spending storage buyers - can help you get there faster.

STORAGEsearch offers attractive ad packages for companies spending from around $1,300 a year to $20,000 a year. Advertising on our site is proven to work. As a publisher we have a 13 year track record as a directory publisher in the high value enterprise storage market, and over 10 years experience selling web advertising.

We're easy to do business with. You don't even need to design an ad to run our classified ads. We do it for you. You can pay by credit card, wire transfer or check - whichever is most convenient for your company.

Contact me by email, and tell me what products you want to promote and how much you want to spend.

You can pay by credit card , check or wire transfer. Satisfaction is guaranteed. If we don't think we can make a serious improvement to your company's fortunes by advertising on our site we'll tell you and we won't accept your order. If we do accept your order and you aren't delighted with the results - tell us why and we'll work with you to understand what's not working, increase your visibility and fix the problem.

Nobody else you talk to in another storage publication or ad agency has as much experience helping US based enterprise IT companies grow their business on the web. When you become our customer you join a winning team team that helps the world's fastest growing storage companies.

Sincerely
Zsolt Kerekes - Publisher, email zsolt@STORAGEsearch.com subject advertising on STORAGEsearch.com

PS - You can always ask me for an idea of historic stats related to the exact type of product or service you want to promote including your own company profile or articles by you or competitors. That's much more useful to help estimate the best size of your ad budget than just asking for general info about the hundreds of thousands of storage readers who are searching for other types of storage product which are unrelated to yours. We have very precise granularity based on content which tells you the exact readership available for targeting for example on RAID controllers or RAID systems or chips, and discriminating between readers interested in iSCSI versus Fibre Channel SAN, or virtual tape backup versus traditional tape backup or backup software - instead of lumping everything together.

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