BDR Appliance Revenue Posts Year-Over-Year Increase, Says IDC

As the debate over backup appliances continues (some vendors appliance-based data backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is a “performance choker,” while others believe on-site appliances prevent additional downtime), what does the market say about the the issue?

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker, purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues posted a 16.5 percent year-over-year increase, totaling $679.0 million, in the first quarter of 2013.

The total PBBA open systems market increased, too, totaling $612.2 million in revenues, representing 22.8 percent growth from the prior year’s first quarter.

“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,” said IDC Data Protection Recovery Research Directory Robert Amatruda in his prepared remarks.

Total worldwide PBBA capacity shipped reached 361,289 terabytes, increasing 45.1 percent year over year.

IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Purpose Built Backup Appliance Tracker provides vendor share, market size, and forecasts for purpose-built backup appliances.

Do you leverage on-site appliances for your BDR solution? If so, why, and if not, why not?