As data growth continues unabated, organizations are increasingly looking to make their data management efforts more efficient. As a result, many organizations are implementing purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs).

IDC expects that total worldwide PBBA revenue will grow robustly at a compound annual growth rate of 19.4%, totaling nearly $5.9 billion by the close of 2016 — driven by customers' need to augment existing data protection and take advantage of data deduplication.

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