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What is Dell Networker?
Dell 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.
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- Deduplication and file compression (10)6.969%
- Instant recovery (11)6.060%
- Incremental backup identification (11)4.848%
- Multiple backup destinations (10)3.030%
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What is Dell Networker?
Dell 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.
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What is Dell 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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Dell 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.
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The most common users of Dell Networker are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Dell EMC Networker is a versatile backup solution that is widely used across various industries and organizations to protect critical data. For example, Provident Funding relies on Networker to back up virtual machine images, physical Windows systems, and Cellera NAS, ensuring the safety of their data. The IT team at Provident Funding uses Networker directly and can easily make recovery requests as needed. By leveraging Networker, Provident Funding reduces the risk of data loss and maintains the integrity of their information.
Additionally, Networker has been chosen by numerous companies to safeguard their data. Although there have been experiences where the product did not meet expectations, such as backups failing regularly and encountering poor support at one undisclosed company over the past three years, for the most part, Networker has proven to be a reliable backup solution. It is utilized by both SMBs and enterprise-level organizations to protect a variety of systems including file servers, application/database servers, VMs, and databases. Moreover, Networker is often paired with Dell DataDomain to create a comprehensive backup infrastructure that handles a large volume of critical backups. This combination offers peace of mind and enhanced data protection for organizations across different sectors.
Overall, Dell EMC Networker provides valuable backup capabilities for protecting crucial data assets in diverse environments. Its versatility makes it suitable for businesses of varying sizes and needs, offering a single application to manage different backup datasets effectively. While there have been instances where users encountered challenges with the product or received subpar support, many organizations rely on Networker to ensure the integrity and availability of their data.
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May 22, 2021
Dell EMC: Good but not the best
- It has helped to quickly bring back deleted files.
- Saved time from having to recreate files.
- Machines have held up past their warranty.
April 29, 2021
NetWorker, better called "Not Workin'"
- In our experience, NetWorker was extremely expensive to use. It requires very expensive proprietary hardware, like Data Domain, for deduplication. CommVault, in stark contrast, is hardware agnostic for deduplication, and will deduce across any/all hardware, even on tape.
- Extremely wasteful of personnel resources. In our experience it required a dedicated administrator, working 50-60 hours a week for the three years we used it, just to attempt to keep up with the backups. That amounted to a cost of about $270K over the three year period.
- Because it was never designed or implemented as it should have, for a three year period we were completely vulnerable to a real life disaster. If the need had arisen to recover from, say, and tornado hitting our datacenter, we would have gone out of business because the NetWorker backups were completely unreliable.
January 30, 2021
Great tool as a supplement to your existing backup solution
- Having two backup systems does create more operational time needed to manage
- License cost per server is fairly high for products in this range
- ROI is high whenever you are saved time and money with a needed backup
- When you get into the deep dive of features there is quite a learning curve for those options so it's a lot to learn.
- Restores and restore verification is very fast so you save some time there.
- Costs are fairly high so an ROI may take some time vs a standard backup software.
January 09, 2021
A life saver for keeping your most important data safe!
- One positive thing it has done is put us at ease with our important backups
- It has raised our backup budget however
- Saving time doing multiple individual backups with existing system
- It has kept our customers protected and confident in our services, especially in the current ransomware climate
- As a Managed Services Provider, it has helped us reduce the man-hours involved in managing backups for many different customer environments
April 30, 2020
There are better solutions out there.
- The negatives are how much time we have to devote to the product.
- The plus is that when we needed to pull the backups out of Networker, we were able to.
- Now that it's been implemented and the many kinks worked out, we have far less exposure to downtime, but that's only because we didn't have an adequate backup solution in the target environment initially. We used native tools to protect SQL data and a few other tricks, but really didn't have anything proper. In other words, the bar was low.
- We have reduced the load on some of our application servers through the use of Networker's agent for Microsoft. However, compare that with Veeam, which just has a checkbox and no agent required to properly back up a SQL box.
- Agent-based backups require monitoring and periodic updates. This adds complexity and additional staff time to manage.
September 01, 2017
Networker - Solid Small to Mid-size Product With Few Drawbacks
- Networker has been reliable for an extended amount of time to meet our minimal needs for backup and disaster recovery.
- The software, with few exceptions, has operated normally without problems and upgrades have gone fairly quickly, ensuring positive impact in terms of continuance of backup integrity
- Networker's costs, however, have caused us to recently look at other solutions as the licensing model prior to the capacity based model has become confusing and too complex.
August 16, 2017
Networker, reliable but works like backup software
- Networker has helped reduce risk of data loss. We have many compensating controls for business user level data but Networker has been helpful with full image recoveries. Sometimes an IT mistake can be hard to back out of and/or rebuilding from scratch isn't a good option. Networker has helped save lots of IT engineer's time in our company.
December 10, 2015
Networker review - easy to manage, does what it says
- Good customer service
- Lengthy process, but 100% doable