I have no idea what EMC did in Q4 or what the year looks like, EMC announces before the bell on the 24th, but it’s clear to me from speaking to people in the field there has been market share expansion across the board. What that looks like and to what extent it has occurred we’ll know next Tuesday.
On the topic of market expansion, today IDC announced that EMC Backup Recovery Systems in the first half of 2011 had 62% of the purpose built backup appliance market. That market growing by 65% year over year even with the economic downturn and contracting budgets.
Since BRS is my division (I say that like I own the bricks in the buildings and the blood in employees) I’ve been lucky to bring a portfolio as intellectually interesting as Avamar, Atmos, Centera, Data Domain, DLm, NetWorker and SourceOne to customers.
All in, by revenue I estimate BRS is the largest backup, recovery and archiving focused player in the business. And while we’re 3x larger than the nearest competitor in the purpose built backup appliances market this year Pat Gelsinger has tasked us with doing even more.
With that in mind, and paperwork still to be processed, I’m hanging up my sales spurs and going to work for BRS CTO Stephen Manley. He has big ideas and the love of the BRS software development teams to make them happen.
After selling the future of backup, recovery and archiving, it’s time to go help create the future of backup, recovery and archiving.
