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Mayur Dewaikar

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Mayur Dewaikar Symantec Employee

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Job Title: Sr. Manager, Technical Sales Organization
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I am a technology enthusiast working in the technical sales group at Symantec. My day job has me managing a group of rock star product specialists and jointly, we evangalize the value of our deduplication and the newly launched hardware portfolio to our customers. I have held various roles at Symantec including that of an engineer, a product manager, and now that of a technical sales manager. I enjoy speaking to users about their data protection challenges and designing solutions that solve these challenges.

Member for: 7 years 46 weeks
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blog entry comment 06 Jul 2012
Mayur Dewaikar commented on: Frequently Asked Questions on NetBackup Accelerator
Fred, NBU Accelerator is available through the Open Storage API to all Symantec OST partners. EMC and HP will need to implement this feature as part of their OST implementation with Data Domain and the B6200 respectively. Once they have ...
New blog entry 27 Jun 2012
Mayur Dewaikar posted: It is the Backup Volume, Stupid...
Data growth remains one of the top pain points for backup admins.  The legacy data protection technologies are not keeping up with the data growth.  To address this problem, many organizations are re-architecting their backups. One of the key elements of backup redesign continues to ...
New blog entry 07 Dec 2011
Mayur Dewaikar posted: Don't Get Duped by Dedupe
If you are evaluating dedupe solutions, the dedupe ratios claimed by dedupe vendors are bound to intrigue you.  I have seen claims of dedupe rates as high as 50:1 and I am sure there are claims of even higher dedupe than that. Are such dedupe rates realistic? Speaking truthfully, yes, ...
New video 06 Nov 2011
Mayur Dewaikar posted: NetBackup 5220 Appliance Demo
The Symantec NetBackup 5220 appliance is the latest offering from the Symantec NetBackup family of appliances. It offer the market leading data protection solution, NetBackup, in an easy to use appliance form factor. Chad Wansing, a Senior Product Specialist at Symantec ...
blog entry comment 18 Aug 2011
Mayur Dewaikar commented on: NetBackup Deduplication- FUD vs. Reality
Hello Dr.Dedupe, Thanks for your comments. I am flattered that you found it worth your time to comment on blogs from Symantec who you claim has 1% market share in the dedupe area. However, you missed the point of the blog. ...
blog entry comment 18 Aug 2011
Mayur Dewaikar commented on: NetBackup Deduplication- FUD vs. Reality
Hello, Thanks for your comments. I am glad you find the Data Domain products to be competitive, because they are indeed a fine set of products in the use cases that they work well in. However, the point of this blog is not to compare products. ...
blog entry comment 12 Aug 2011
Mayur Dewaikar commented on: Buy a NetBackup Appliance or Build My Own?
Hi, I just want to clarify the statement above, neither NBU 5200 nor the 5220 can be connected to SAN library. All storage is shipped with the appliances and you cannot add external storage of your choice to these appliances. The idea of an ...
blog entry comment 11 Aug 2011
Mayur Dewaikar commented on: Buy a NetBackup Appliance or Build My Own?
In the latest software patch we released for the NBU 5200 series of appliances, the appliances can auto detect the presence of new patches via an occasional check with the Symantec support servers. Customers can download the patch from within the ...
New blog entry 10 Aug 2011
Mayur Dewaikar posted: NetBackup Deduplication- FUD vs. Reality
In my current role at Symantec, I spend a lot of time talking to customers about their data protection strategies. It is interesting to note how much misinformation some of our competitors continue to give customers about Symantec’s deduplication technology.  They continue to scour ...
New blog entry 19 May 2011
Mayur Dewaikar posted: Deduplication Everywhere is a Beautiful Thing
Having personally witnessed the evolution of data deduplication technologies over the years, I can say that deduplication has come a long way both in terms of maturity of vendor offerings, and end user sophistication. Until about two years back, I used to start my discussions with customers ...
discussion comment 11 May 2011
Mayur Dewaikar commented on: Which license with N5200?
You need to purchase two kinds of SKUs to license a NBU 5200 appliance: 1. Hardware: The appliance hardware SKU and associated maintenance 2. Software: NBU software can be licensed in two ways: traditional licensing or capacity based ...
discussion comment 11 May 2011
Mayur Dewaikar commented on: Visio stencils for Netbackup Appliances
Hello, We have high resolution graphics for our appliances which can be used in Visio diagrams. They look much nicer than visio stencils. Please drop me an email at mayur_dewaikar@symantec.com so I can directly email them to you. thanks!
discussion comment 11 May 2011
Mayur Dewaikar commented on: netbackup puredisk 5000 migrate clients
PureDisk software and the NetBackup 5000 appliance are separate products and in order to avoid mismatch of software versions and code bases, it would be best to not mix the legacy PureDisk install with the appliance install (including client ...
New video 11 May 2011
Mayur Dewaikar posted: NetBackup 5200 Appliance Demo
The Symantec NetBackup 5200 appliances offer the market leading data protection solution, NetBackup, in an easy to use appliance form factor. Chad Wansing, a Senior Product Specialist at Symantec demonstrates how easy it is to setup the NetBackup 5200 appliance and start ...
discussion comment 05 May 2011
Mayur Dewaikar commented on: netbackup puredisk 5000 migrate clients
Hi There, Per the best practices, it is recommended that legacy software only installs of PureDisk should not be combined with the NBU 5000 appliances. This is mainly to avoid software version mismatch. I would recommend starting your new ...
New video 22 Apr 2011
Mayur Dewaikar posted: NetBackup 5000 Series Deduplication Appliance Demo
The Symantec NetBackup 5000 series appliances offer scalable deduplication solutions for the enterprise that provide operational simplicity, effective utilization of bandwidth and storage, and high performance. Chad Wansing, a Senior Product Specialist in Symantec demonstrates how easy ...
discussion comment 09 Apr 2011
Mayur Dewaikar commented on: N5000 (or PureDisk) How to revert eth1 to dhcp?
  The appliances come with an option to revert back to the factory defaults. This is available on the default setup interface (http://192.168.1.1). Using this option, you can start from scratch if you have made a mistake anywhere in ...
blog entry comment 24 Apr 2009
Mayur DeWaikar commented on: PureDisk & Netbackup - a hope for the future, but not just yet.
This is good discussion and thank you for bringing it up. However, there are some inaccuracies in your blog that I'd like to correct and also offer my 2 cents on this topic. 1. When it comes to data deduplication, customers have various ...
New blog entry 29 Jan 2009
Mayur Dewaikar posted: My Symantec OpenStorage (OST) “A-HA moment”
A few months back, I was riding in my colleague’s car and his iPOD interface to the car caught my eye. His car did not have a “native iPOD adapter” and so he had bought this aftermarket device that plugged into his iPOD and allowed him to control the iPOD ...
discussion comment 29 Jan 2009
Mayur Dewaikar commented on: Incompatibility with Windows Vista
Windows Vista backups are not support via PureDisk. Vista is primarily a desktop/laptop OS and PureDisk is targeted at server backups.