IDC Report: Scutech Once Again Claims Dual Leadership in China’s Data Protection Market, Ranking No. 1 in the PBBA Market for Eight Consecutive Years

Recently, IDC, a leading global market intelligence firm, released its latest research data on China’s data backup and recovery market. According to the report, in the independent software vendor, or ISV, rankings, Scutech once again led both China’s overall Data Replication & Protection, or DR&P, market and the Purpose-Built Backup Appliance, or PBBA, market, firmly ranking No. 1 in both categories.

According to IDC’s data for China’s overall DR&P market, which includes both appliances and software, Scutech ranked among the industry leaders with a market share of 13.8%, once again maintaining its No. 1 position in the ISV ranking. In the PBBA market, Scutech secured a 14.4% market share in the ISV ranking, once again ranking No. 1 and claiming the title of China’s leading data protection appliance brand for the eighth consecutive year. This achievement further reinforces Scutech’s strong momentum as a dual leader across both market segments.

IDC data also shows that China’s overall data protection market reached approximately USD 796.6 million in 2025, representing year-on-year growth of 4.1%. Among them, the PBBA market reached USD 588.1 million, up 13.7% year on year, accounting for nearly 74% of the overall DR&P market. Against the backdrop of steady growth in the overall market and the continued dominance of PBBA as a mainstream deployment model, Scutech has become one of the key beneficiaries of market expansion, driven by its sustained investment in domestic ecosystems, product innovation, and industry-specific solutions.

In 2025, Scutech not only continued to maintain its leadership in market share, but also significantly outperformed the industry average in terms of growth quality. Its year-on-year growth reached 31.1% in the overall market and 43.9% in the PBBA market, both notably higher than the market average, continuing the company’s strong growth momentum over the years.

Scutech also delivered outstanding performance across multiple capability segments. Among the top five vendors in China’s DR&P software market in 2025, Scutech was the only vendor to achieve positive growth. In the CDM market, Scutech recorded year-on-year growth of 26.4%, ranking first among the top five vendors. In the CDP market, Scutech has entered the industry’s top two, with year-on-year growth of 37.6%, ranking among the leading vendors in this segment.

These achievements show that Scutech’s leadership is not the result of a breakthrough in a single product line, but rather a comprehensive improvement across multiple key areas, including software capabilities, copy data management, and continuous data protection. This further validates Scutech’s overall leadership strength in China’s data protection market.

From a market trend perspective, IDC noted that AI, hybrid cloud, data assetization, and domestic substitution are continuing to drive the growth of China’s data protection market. As AI accelerates its integration into core business systems, the scope of data protection is expanding beyond traditional data to include critical assets such as models, knowledge bases, training datasets, and system configurations.

In response to this trend, Scutech is continuing to advance its AI data protection appliance solution, helping enterprises better meet the higher requirements for data security and business continuity in the intelligent era.

IDC forecasts that China’s data protection market will achieve a compound annual growth rate of 8.3% over the next five years. Facing sustained market opportunities, Scutech will continue to uphold an innovation-driven strategy, deepen the integration of AI-powered technologies, and build a more efficient and reliable enterprise-grade data protection platform, supporting the secure and high-quality development of China’s digital economy.