Worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues declined -2.5% year over year to $664.5 million in the first quarter of 2014 (1Q14), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker. In addition, the total PBBA open systems market fell -2.6% year over year in 1Q14 with revenues totaling $598.9 million while the mainframe market experienced a decline of -1.1% for the same period. Total worldwide PBBA capacity shipped for open systems and mainframe PBBA systems reached 398,280 terabytes, increasing 7.1% year over year.

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

Total Worldwide PBBA 1Q14 Results
EMC maintained its lead in the overall PBBA market with 59.9% revenue share in the first quarter, followed by Symantec and IBM with 13.7% and 5.8% market share, respectively. HP held the number 4 position with 4.3% market share while Barracuda and Quantum ended the quarter in a statistical tie* for the number 5 position with 2.3% share, respectively.For more information, visit this page.