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About ACSL - the publisher of STORAGEsearch.com

Our main publication is:- STORAGEsearch.com ...with over 1 million unique readers / year - the strongly branded mouse site has been leading the way to the new storage frontier since 1998

Many of our advertisers say their ads on STORAGEsearch deliver better quality readers, more customers and better ROI than any other online publication they have tried including search-engines like Google.

SSD insiders regard our storage publication as "the SSD market Bible".

In an earlier decade - our SPARC publication was known as the "SPARC Bible".

Markets and technologies may change - but there's always a need for high quality information.
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ACSL, founded in 1991, is a privately owned publisher focused on the enterprise storage market. Our primary business is selling web advertising in our own publications.

We put our publications online in 1996 and have 13 years experience as a pure dotcom publisher.

best contact method! - email the publisher - about editorial or advertising - with a subject line such as

"ads on STORAGEsearch.com", or "getting listed on STORAGEsearch.com".

Phone (the number is at the foot of this page) if your email hasn't had a reply or other satisfactory response within 2 working days - just in case it got deleted accidentally by our spam filter.

Beat the Recession!

Advertise Wisely in Fast Growing Customer Segments


Editor - many analysts say that the SSD market is a fast growing market. But is the SSD market recession-proof?.

As I wrote in that article - some parts are - others aren't.

But if you make uniquely good SSD products that thoughtful customers want to buy - we can help you sell more of them, faster.

We've been the #1 publisher in the SSD market for 10 years. And we played a key part in igniting the SSD market revolution.

The insights we get from tracking the biggest and best readership in that market, talking to SSD oems, VCs and the world's biggest SSD customers have enabled us to construct what many regard as a unique understanding of the SSD market. If you're an advertiser we can help you understand the potential for your market better, and provide an easy and effective route to market.

If you're in the hottest segments in the storage market you have to advertise in the hottest publication for those segments - because that's where the customers are.

You've got to advertise where the serious SSD buyers look. We cover the SSD market from the mobile phone to the datacenter.

We've helped more SSD oems grow their business than any publication online and offline.

We've got effective SSD ad packages from $2,000 to $30,000 per year.

We also have effective ad packages for about 50 other vertical segments within the storage market. Ask for details.

Thanks to all our advertisers, the thousands of contributors who made this possible, and the thousands of independent links to our site from companies in the storage industry.

Our primary market is the US. Between 65% to 70% of our readers are based in the US. The rest are divided between Europe and Asia.

Our storage readers include everyone with a serious interest in this market ranging from end-users in the world's biggest companies and government buying million dollar storage systems, defense integrators buying military grade storage, designers in storage oems choosing the latest chips, market analysts, venture capitalists, VARs and the founders and senior management in hundreds of storage companies. Covering the complete span of the storage market from chips to the datacenter, and companies from birth to death and afterlife, our readers are people who seek the most reliable timely information and find it here.


ACSL publications timeline

1991 - ACSL is incorporated as a publisher of computer directories in the UK

1992 - ACSL publishes the SBus Product Directory (later renamed the SPARC Product Directory) - the independent guide to Sun compatible cards, systems, and VARs endorsed (for many years) by Sun Microsystems.

1993 - ACSL becomes an international publisher with customers in over 20 countries, and generates over 80% of its revenue from outside the UK. Prints directories in both California and UK.

1996 - ACSL moves to a web based publishing model with SPARC Product Directory and creates Marketing Views to help its partners get up to speed with the needs of internet marketing.

1998 - ACSL publishes STORAGEsearch.com

2001 - STORAGEsearch.com overtakes SPARC Product Directory in readers and pageviews (in February 2001) and by the end of the year becomes ACSL's main publication - generating over 80% of ad revenue.

2006 - STORAGEsearch.com passes 1 million unique readers annually milestone.

2007 - STORAGEsearch.com achieved 33% revenue growth, and double digit pageview and reader growth year on year.

2009 - February 2009 - if the past 3 months we've had record ad bookings - despite the recession - and despite losing some advertisers in declining hard disk related market segments. Our revenue growth has mainly come from increased advertising in the SSD market from existing advertisers - who say this is their #1 best source of new leads and significant customer business.

MarketingViews.com FAQs for connected IT marketers

How are things going at StorageSearch.com?
Editor:- January 4, 2010 - 2009 was our best year for 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.
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Zsolt Kerekes - Publisher
About the editor/publisher:- ....................
Zsolt Kerekes, who is the same age as the hard disk drive, founded ACSL in 1991.

Following a geeky teenage interest in electronics Zsolt got a degree in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University in 1977.
In 1977 he knew he just had to get hands-on with the new generation of 8 bit micros - there was no question of doing anything else.

After designing first generation microprocessor based products for 3 international companies in the instrumentation and factory automation markets he cofounded a venture capital backed startup manufacturer of networked I/O products called Digital Instruments in 1983.

In 1988 Zsolt became development manager of a Unix systems integrator called Databasix which produced COTs 680X0 / SPARC VMEbus platforms for the defence, intelligence, broadcast and industrial markets. He led a reverse acquisition by startup Venturon, and became technical and marketing manager of the data systems division which continued the Databasix product line.

In 1991 he founded ACSL. Zsolt loves his current job and is passionate about the great opportunities in the storage market.
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Our primary business is selling web advertising in our own publications.

We started selling web ads in our publications back in 1996. They work for our customers, and if they don't, we find out why and fix it. That's why we're still in business after more than a decade as a dotcom publisher.

We don't sell ads through intermediaries. All our advertising is bought directly by vendors.

Our advertisers have ranged from small fast growing VARs to multibillion dollar corporations, and include many of the world's fastest growing storage companies.

When you become an advertiser, whether you spend $1,000 or $40,000, we become part of your virtual marketing team and in addition to providing hands-free leveraging of your promotion assets, we can offer free advice on how to improve your communications with your market, based on our unique insights and our unmatched experience of helping OEMs, VARs, ISVs and Distis accelerate their business growth.


ACSL - address and links

Surprise! We're based in the UK, but about 85% of our ad revenue and most of our readers are actually based in the USA. In fact most of our revenue has come from outside the UK ever since 1993.

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New address since January 10, 2007

ACSL (Applied Computer Science, Ltd.)
Chiltington House, Chiltington Lane
East Chiltington, Lewes
BN7 3QU
England
tel:- +44 (0)1273 890 060......
fax:- +44 (0)1273 890 066
email:- Zsolt@STORAGEsearch.com


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