IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Tracker Taxonomy, 2025

This IDC study provides a detailed description of the purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) market as part of IDC's Storage Solutions coverage and Worldwide PBBA Tracker."IDC continues to see organizations investing in PBBAs in support of the backup, recovery, and protection of their data. Over time, we expect for PBBAs to remain a valuable component of organizations' data logistics and protection strategies, with a growing emphasis around the capabilities of PBBAs in cyber-recovery scenarios," said Greg Macatee, research manager, IDC's Infrastructure Systems, Platforms, and Technologies Group.