Companies' reduced spending desire due to extended lockdown and its financial impact have affected the EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market, which declined 6.7% in value year on year to $332.5m in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker.
"Though the pandemic has created high demand for cloud data protection solutions, spending on on-premises HW applications such as PBBA has been deferred," said Jimena Sisa, senior research analyst, EMEA Storage Systems, IDC. "PBBAs are evolving from a mere traditional backup product to secondary data platforms and data protection solutions for different and new architectures to support the change of the data protection market that is becoming more cloud based. IDC therefore expects that the PBBA market will remain active in years to come."
The PBBA tracker for Western Europe declined in value 10.3% year-on-year, reaching $251.4 million in 4Q20.
The DACH market continued to be the largest and strongest in Western Europe in 4Q20, responsible for 37.3% of market value, 5.2 points more than the previous year's share, and reporting an increase of 4.1% year on year.
The UK&I lost 2.7 points in market share since last year, at 19.5% market value, and declined 21.3% in value year on year.
The French PBBA market reported a decline of 13.7% year on year in value and 12.1% market share.
