WW Backup Appliance Revenue Declines 2.5% From 1Q13 to 1Q14 – IDC

Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues declined -2.5% year over year to $664.5 million in 1Q14, according to the International Data Corporation‘s Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker.

In addition, the total PBBA open systems market fell -2.6% year over year in 1Q14 with revenues totaling $598.9 million while the mainframe market experienced a decline of -1.1% for the same period.

Total worldwide PBBA capacity shipped for open systems and mainframe PBBA systems reached 398,280TB, increasing 7.1% year over year.

“The worldwide PBBA market is showing maturity coupled with a typically slow first quarter of the calendar year,” said Robert Amatruda, research director, data protection and recovery. “We expect the PBBA market will resume growth over the months ahead as customers continue to embrace appliance form factors to meet their growing data protection and recovery challenges.”

Total Worldwide PBBA 1Q14 Results
EMC maintained its lead in the overall PBBA market with 59.9% revenue share in the first quarter, followed by Symantec and IBM with 13.7% and 5.8% market share, respectively. HP held the number 4 position with 4.3% market share while Barracuda and Quantum ended the quarter in a statistical tie* for the number 5 position with 2.3% share, respectively.

WW PBBA Factory Revenue, 1Q14
(in $ million)

(Source: IDC Worldwide Purpose Built Backup Appliance Quarterly Tracker, June 20, 2014)

* Note: IDC declares a statistical tie in the worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market when there is less than one tenth of one% (0.1%) difference in the revenue share of two or more vendors.

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.