WW Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Up 7% Y/Y in 2Q13 – IDC

Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues posted a 7.3% year-over-year increase, totaling $720.2 million in 2Q13, according to the International Data Corporation‘s Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker.

Furthermore, the total PBBA open systems market increased robustly, totaling $639.8 million in revenues, representing 13.3% growth from the prior year’s second quarter. In addition, the total worldwide PBBA capacity shipped reached 394,940TB, growing 40.9% year over year.

“The total worldwide PBBA market continued to outpace the external disk system market by a wide margin in the second 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. “We believe that appliance-based protection and recovery has taken root in customers’ environments as a simplified approach to meet their backup and recovery challenges.”

Total WW PBBA 2Q13 Results
EMC maintained its lead in the overall PBBA market with 62.6% revenue share in the second quarter, followed by Symantec and IBM and with 12.4% and 7.3% market share, respectively. Symantec exhibited strong year-over-year growth in the PBBA market in the second quarter of 2013 while IBM saw its revenues decline.

WW PBBA Factory Revenue
(Revenue in $million)

 (Source: IDC Worldwide Purpose Built Backup
 Appliance Quarterly Tracker, September 23, 2013)

Taxonomy Notes:
IDC defines a 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.