IDC: Worldwide PBBA Market Revenue Drops 2.5% In Q1 - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance or PBBA factory revenues declined 2.5 percent year over year to $664.5 million in the first quarter of 2014, according to the International Data Corporation Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker.

Additionally, the total PBBA open systems market fell 2.6 percent in the quarter with revenues totaling $598.9 million, while the mainframe market experienced a decline of 1.1 percent for the same period.

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

EMC (EMC) maintained its lead in the overall PBBA market with 59.9 percent revenue share, followed by Symantec (SYMC) and IBM (IBM) with 13.7 percent and 5.8 percent market share, respectively.

HP (HPQ) held the number 4 position with 4.3 percent market share while Barracuda and Quantum ended the quarter in a statistical tie for the number 5 position with 2.3 percent share each.

Robert Amatruda, Research Director, Data Protection and Recovery, said, "The worldwide PBBA market is showing maturity coupled with a typically slow first quarter of the calendar year. 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."