IT services vendor and solutions provider, EMC, has taken a solid grip on the worldwide Purpose Built Backup Appliance (PBBA) market, according to a new report just released, which shows the company captured 62 percent share of the market in the first half of last year, more than three times the share of its nearest competitor. And, more Australian companies have been quicker to embrace PBBA solutions than their counterparts in other Asia-Pacific countries.

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The global market for information management software is expected to ‘take off’ with strong growth over the next five years, including in the Asia Pacific region where revenues are forecast to reach $6.01 billion by 2015, and with EMC, IBM and SAS continuing to take a big slice of regional marketshare.

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Financial services business Suncorp has rolled out a $1.5 million information capture system which it hopes will pay for itself by 2013 thanks to time and labour savings. While the installation was relatively speedy, Suncorp hadn’t banked on having to educate the technology supplier, Kofax, about the Agile process which is widely deployed in the financial institution.

EMC has launched its Australian service provider partner program to support the company’s public and private cloud services, with initial partners already signed up to the highest tier of the program, including Telstra, Macquarie Telecom, Melbourne IT, Infoplex, Dimension Data and CSC.