"Overall sales of storage software improved during the first quarter of 2013," said Eric Sheppard, Research Director, Storage Software at IDC. "Demand was strongest for Data Protection & Recovery software as well as Storage & Device Management software. This was driven by a broad need for data resiliency, improvements to operational efficiencies, and better insights into installed data center infrastructure."
EMC, IBM, and Symantec were the top three vendors in the overall storage software market with market shares (based on revenues) of 23.9%, 16.8%, and 14.7%, respectively. Veeam and CommVault experienced the largest year-over-year growth during the quarter with increases of 35.4% and 23.0%, respectively.
Data Protection & Recovery software revenues were up 7.6% year over year to $1.3 billion. Storage & Device Management software revenues grew 7.3% year over year to $706.6 million.
IDC's Worldwide Storage Software QView is a quantitative tool for analyzing the global storage software market. This Tracker counts new license and maintenance revenues quarterly and provides data segmentations by vendor, submarket, functional product family, and region.