EMEA Purpose-Built Backup Appliances Market Declined 6% Y/Y in 2Q19 at $268 Million

EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) vendor revenues decreased 5.6% Y/Y to reach $267.7 million in 2Q019, according to International Data Corporation‘s Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker.

Total EMEA PBBA open systems vendor revenue decreased 1.0% Y/Y, with revenues of $252.4 million. Mainframe system sales also decreased 46.4% Y/Y in 2Q19.

“The EMEA PBBA market experienced a dismal Y/Y decline in 2Q19 as the market continued to evolve,” said Jimena Sisa, senior research analyst, EMEA storage systems, IDC. “Due to organizations’ digital strategies, the focus continues to shift away from legacy infrastructures to those that can offer the best way to deal with their most strategic asset – data.”

EMEA PBBA Vendor Revenue by Product, 2Q19
(in $ million)

Regional Highlights

Western Europe
PBBA vendor revenue in Western Europe declined in 2Q19 posting -8.3% Y/Y to reach $211.6 million.

“The financial and political turmoil due to Brexit and tension in the Eurozone is affecting investment confidence and directly impacting directly IT budgets,” said Sisa. “Organizations are delaying IT upgrades and new projects with a detrimental effect on infrastructure.”

CEMA
Conversely to Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMA) PBBA market resumed growth after 1Q19 and reached revenue of $56.06 million for 6.4% Y/Y growth in 2Q19.

Overall market growth could be attributed to open systems as mainframe systems, which marked a steep decline for the quarter. Most PBBA vendors had either positive or flat performances, with some shift from midrange to high-end solutions.

“Both storage incumbents and companies focused exclusively on data protection continue to thrive in the PBBA market as CEMA is not so affected by the negative macroeconomic trends in Europe,” said Marina Kostova, research manager, EMEA storage systems, IDC. “The demand for backup appliances co-exists with other data protection solutions as end users are prone to invest in more than one technology to leverage their benefits.”

Companies covered: IBM, Oracle Corporation, FalconStor Software, Inc., Barracuda Networks, Inc., ExaGrid Systems, Inc., Veritas AG, Unitrends, Inc., Fujitsu Limited, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Inc., HDS International Corp., Quantum Corporation.

Taxonomy Notes
IDC defines a PBBA as a standalone disk-based solution that utilizes software, disk arrays, server engines, or nodes that are used for backup data and specifically for data coming from a backup application (e.g., NetWorker, NetBackup, TSM, and Backup Exec) or can be tightly integrated with the backup software to catalog, index, schedule, and perform data movement. PBBAs are deployed in standalone configurations or as gateways. Solutions deployed in a gateway configuration connect to and store backup data on general-purpose storage. Here, the gateway device serves as the component that is purpose built solely for backup and not to support any other workload or application. Regardless of packaging (as an appliance or gateway), PBBAs can have multiple interfaces or protocols. They can also provide and receive replication to or from remote sites and a secondary PBBA for DR.

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June 24 2019 | Press Release