Appliances for backup are falling out of favour in EMEA as purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) vendor revenues declined 12% year over year to reach $191m in the first quarter of 2017, according to IDC.
Capacity shipped for 1Q17 totalled 235PB, an increase of 5% from 1Q16, but this growth mainly came from open systems products, with capacity increasing 11% year on year. Total EMEA PBBA open systems vendor revenue decreased 11% year on year during the first quarter, with revenues of $178m.
Vendor revenue in Western Europe was down 8% year on year in 1Q17 to $156m.
"Although the economic and political turmoil is still impacting consumer confidence, delaying modernisation investment projects are negatively affecting the PBBA market in some Western European economies, but PBBA spending increased in other countries such as the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway) at 57% YoY, Italy at 29% YoY, and Netherlands at 21%.
The PBBA market in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMA) is slowing down the trend of recovery significantly and declined 24% year on year in 1Q17. This is very close to the 25% decline in 1Q16.