Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues posted a 16,5% year-over-year increase, totalling $679-million in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker.
Furthermore, the total PBBA open systems market increased robustly, totalling $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 361,289 terabytes, 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,” says Robert Amatruda, research director: data protection and recovery at IDC.
“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.”
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.