WW Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Market Resumes Growth in 3Q15 – IDC

Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues grew 2.2% year over year totaling $813.6 million in 3Q15, according to the International Data Corporation‘s Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker.

Total PBBA open systems factory revenue grew 3.8% year over year in 3Q15 with revenues totaling $742.4 million while the mainframe market experienced a decline of -12.3% for the same period.

Total worldwide PBBA capacity shipped for 3Q15 was just shy of 831PB, an increase of 22.4% year over year.

“Resuming its trend, the worldwide PBBA market experienced a year-over-year increase in the third quarter of 2015,” said Liz Conner, research manager, storage systems, IDC. “Responding to end user needs, vendors have adjusting product portfolios to enable the ability to tier or push data to the cloud, put a greater focus on deduplication and backup software, and have worked to enhance ease of use, allowing for a simpler single pane of glass management of backups.”

Total Worldwide PBBA 3Q15 Results
EMC maintained its lead in the overall PBBA market with 61.4% revenue share in the third quarter, followed by Symantec* with 14.3% share. IBM and HP tied** for third, posting 5.2% and 5.0% market share, respectively. Dell finished the quarter in the number 5 position with 2.9% market share.

Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide PBBA Factory Revenue, Third Quarter of 2015
(in $ million)

(Source: IDC Worldwide Purpose Built Backup Appliance Quarterly Tracker, December 18, 2015)

Notes:
* Symantec includes the Veritas business.
** IDC declares a statistical tie in the worldwide purpose-built backup appliance market when there is less than one% difference in the revenue share of two or more vendors.

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.