Networker - Solid Small to Mid-size Product With Few Drawbacks
September 01, 2017
Networker - Solid Small to Mid-size Product With Few Drawbacks
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Networker
Networker is being used as the primary backup software for our organization.
- Networker has a UI and set that is relatively easy to use. It has a policy-based backup system that is straightforward as far as configuration.
- Networker has fairly robust reporting on current save sets and easily exportable pdfs and spreadsheets of statistics and metrics
- Networker has a monitoring dialogue which allows you to find out quickly what has succeeded or failed.
- Networker's customer service could use a bit of improvement. While some problems are handled quickly, complex issues sometimes have limited responses with difficulty to escalate up the chain.
- Networker prior to version 9 is using outdated policy configuration which tends to make some backup windows and obligations awkward.
- Networker needs a bit better method for accommodating plugin integration with other applications, and better documentation on implementation of those modules.
- 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.
Networker appears to be decent against NetBackup and Backup Exec as far as policy-based backup solutions are concerned and for stability. But it isn't as close to the virtualization layer as Veeam is and is not as feature rich as CommVault is, especially as it relates to integration with other applications.