A recent International Data Corporation (IDC) report concluded good news for backup and disaster recovery (BDR) vend

CJ Arlotta, Associate Editor

March 25, 2013

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Purpose-Built Backup Appliances: Revenues Increase, IDC Says

rsz_dattoA recent International Data Corporation (IDC) report concluded good news for backup and disaster recovery (BDR) vendors with purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs). According to the report, worldwide PBBA factory revenues increased in the fourth quarter of 2012. Here are the details.

The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker report revealed a 9.7 percent year-over-year increase for PBBA factory revenues, totaling $859.5 million, in the fourth quarter. The total PBBA open systems market, however, reported approximately $567.5 million in revenues, representing a 16.4 percent growth from the prior year’s fourth quarter. Worldwide PBBA capacity shipped grew year-over-year, reaching 455,254 terabytes.

To clear any confusion, IDC has defined 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 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.”

“The total worldwide PBBA market resumed robust growth in the fourth quarter of 2012,” said IDC Data Protection and Recovery Research Director Robert Amatruda in a prepared statement. “Overall, the worldwide PBBA market experienced strong growth in revenue, capacity, and shipments. Long-term, we expect the worldwide PBBA will continue to outpace the overall data protection and recovery software and hardware market as customers continue to embrace turnkey systems to alleviate their backup and recovery challenges.”

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CJ Arlotta

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