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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
April 30, 2020

There are better solutions out there.

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Score 4 out of 10
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If you are already a strong Dell EMC shop and they give you a screaming deal on Networker, it may be worth it. Dell has been promoting new backup and recovery products, but they seem to be being lapped by the startups in the space.
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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
November 24, 2019

There are far better options for data protection and disaster recovery than this

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Networker is only suited for one thing: being a front end for good hardware. We love our Data Domains, the dedupe is insane and they ingest data rapidly. You'd be better off using Veeam, which can talk to the Data Domains natively (that's what we're doing now).
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Josh Dix | TrustRadius Reviewer
August 16, 2017

Networker, reliable but works like backup software

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Score 5 out of 10
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Networker is really good at backing up a lot of data and it might be the right tool for the job if you have a title like 'backup administrator'. I say this because I think to really master and benefit from Networker it requires an immense amount of time playing with the CLI tools before you could comfortably solve many issues on your own. Due to the need I have (and I generally don't have to do this for similar type/complexity products) to reach out to support so often I wouldn't generally recommend it as I work in many systems and my job requires me to administer multiple back end systems of comparable size and importance. However, it is incredibly efficient and reliable, so if you have a large infrastructure and have plenty of time to get really intimate with the software, it can be a good friend. I didn't chose Networker, at first I didn't like it, and now I think it is an OK or even good solution, but it took a lot of experience to feel that way.
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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
September 01, 2017

Networker - Solid Small to Mid-size Product With Few Drawbacks

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Score 7 out of 10
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Networker is well suited for small to medium environments where additional features aren't needed. Dealing with additional devices and light disk to disk backup works fairly well. Where it may be less appropriate, at least before version 9, would be in environments where complex enterprise level schedules might be required or which have applications which need specific backup needs.
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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
December 11, 2015

NetWorker, better called "Not Workin'"

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I would not recommend NetWorker to anyone for any reasons. It is huge, cumbersome, extremely problematic and EMC's support organization with rare exceptions is the worst in the industry. We have had nothing other than serious problems with it for three years, despite consistent attempts to get it working correctly. Every time an EMC engineer came on site (always someone different) that person would ask "Why did you do it this way? That's not the best way to do it." He/she would then change things to how they thought it should be set up (in direct contrast to what the previous EMC person had done and said). In other words, there are no consistent best practices across their support organization. This caused major issues for us, and left me extremely stressed knowing that there was no way in hell we could ever recover from a true disaster.
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Dell EMC Networker Scorecard Summary

Likelihood to Recommend (24)
4.7
Likelihood to Renew (1)
1.0
Usability (2)
3.0
Support Rating (3)
7.0
Implementation Rating (1)
1.0

Feature Scorecard Summary

Universal recovery (4)
3.0
Live recovery (6)
5.5
Recovery verification (6)
4.5
Business application protection (5)
3.5
Multiple backup destinations (6)
4.0
Incremental backup identification (6)
3.0
Backup to the cloud (2)
3.0
Deduplication and file compression (5)
7.5
Snapshots (5)
5.5
Flexible deployment (4)
1.5
Management dashboard (4)
1.0
Platform support (4)
5.9
Retention options (4)
3.5
Encryption (3)
5.9

About Dell EMC Networker

Dell EMC NetWorker is an enterprise-level data protection software product that unifies and automates backup to tape, disk-based, and flash-based storage media across physical and virtual environments for granular and disaster recovery.

Available Modules

Dell EMC NetWorker Module for Databases and Applications – Protection for business-critical databases and applications including IBM DB2, Informix, Domino (Lotus), MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase

Dell EMC NetWorker Module for MEDITECH – Integration with certified MEDITECH Backup Facility (MBF) disaster recovery capabilities for backup and application-consistent local and remote replication

Dell EMC NetWorker Module for Microsoft – VSS-based online protection for Microsoft applications including Exchange, Hyper-V, SQL Server, and SharePoint

Dell EMC NetWorker Module for SAP – Availability of mission-critical enterprise resource planning (ERP), business warehousing, and high-performance, in-memory analytics by delivering fast, online backup and recovery for SAP and SAP HANA.



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