16.5% Y/Y Growth for WW Backup Appliance Market in 1Q13 – IDC

Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues posted a 16.5% year-over-year increase, totaling $679.0 million, in 1Q13, according to the International Data Corporation‘s Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker.

Furthermore, the total PBBA open systems market increased robustly, totaling $612.2 million in revenues and representing 22.8% growth from the prior year’s first quarter. In addition, total worldwide PBBA capacity shipped reached 361,289TB, growing 45.1% year over year.

"The total worldwide PBBA market outpaced the external disk storage system and data protection and recovery markets by a wide margin in the first quarter of 2013. The worldwide PBBA market continues to experience strong growth in revenue, capacity, and shipments," said Robert Amatruda, research director, data protection and recovery. "Long-term, we expect the worldwide PBBA will continue to outpace the overall data protection and recovery software and hardware markets as customers continue to embrace turnkey systems to alleviate their backup and recovery challenges."

Total WW PBBA 1Q13 Results
EMC maintained its lead in the overall PBBA market with 58.9% revenue share in the first quarter, followed by Symantec and IBM and with 15.1% and 7.1% market share, respectively. Symantec exhibited strong year-over-year growth in the PBBA market in the first quarter of 2013 while HP and IBM saw their revenues decline.

    
Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide PBBA Factory Revenue
                           First Quarter of 2013
                                 (in $ million)

 (Source: IDC Worldwide Purpose-Built
 Backup Appliance Quarterly Tracker, June 24, 2013)

Taxonomy Notes:
IDC defines a purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) as a standalone disk-based solution that utilizes software, disk arrays, server engine(s), or nodes that are used for a target for backup data and specifically data coming from a backup application (e.g., NetWorker, NetBackup, TSM, and Backup Exec) or can be tightly integrated with the backup software to catalog, index, schedule, and perform data movement. The PBBA products are deployed in standalone configurations or as gateways. PBBA solutions deployed in a gateway configuration connect to and store backup data on general-purpose storage. Here, the gateway device is serving as the component that is purpose built solely for backup and not for supporting any other workload or application. Regardless of packaging (as an appliance or gateway), PBBAs can have multiple interfaces or protocols. Also, PBBAs often can provide and receive replication to or from remote sites and a secondary PBBA for the purpose of DR.