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Dell NetWorker Reviews & Product Details

Dell NetWorker is an enterprise-level data protection software designed to safeguard critical workloads across diverse environments, including physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. It offers a unified and automated approach to backup and recovery, ensuring data integrity and availability across data centers and public clouds. With its inherent flexibility, NetWorker supports a wide range of operating systems and applications, making it a versatile solution for organizations of all sizes. Key Features and Functionality: - Comprehensive Backup and Recovery: NetWorker provides centralized management for backup and recovery operations across heterogeneous IT ecosystems, supporting various operating systems, databases, and applications. - Scalability and Performance: Designed to meet the needs of growing enterprises, NetWorker delivers high-performance protection for extensive data sets, ensuring efficient backup and recovery processes. - Multicloud Enablement: The software extends data protection capabilities to the cloud, offering backup to cloud, in-cloud backup, long-term retention, and cloud disaster recovery options. - Efficiency Through Automation: NetWorker's automation features reduce management time and operational costs, streamlining data protection tasks. - Broad Application Support: It supports a wide array of applications, including databases like Oracle, SQL Server, and SAP, ensuring application-consistent backup and recovery. - Integrated Snapshot Management: NetWorker offers built-in snapshot management for block and file storage arrays, providing point-in-time copies of data without disrupting application performance. - VMware Optimization: Tight integration with VMware allows administrators to leverage familiar tools, enhancing efficiency in virtualized environments. Primary Value and User Solutions: Dell NetWorker addresses the critical need for reliable and efficient data protection in complex IT environments. By offering a scalable and flexible solution, it enables organizations to safeguard their data across various platforms and infrastructures, including on-premises and cloud-based systems. The software's automation capabilities reduce administrative overhead, while its comprehensive support for diverse applications ensures that businesses can maintain continuity and meet recovery objectives effectively. Ultimately, NetWorker empowers organizations to protect their valuable data assets with confidence and ease.

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Dell Technologies

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Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

15 months

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Hillel G.

Information Technology System Administrator

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/26/2025

"Too difficult to operate"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Dell NetWorker?

The integration with Data Domain is excellent and works seamlessly. The speed of Instant recoveries and the compression is the best I've seen so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell NetWorker?

I found the interface to be quite complicated. When I used it, the UI was Java-based and not intuitive, which made even simple tasks confusing. Additionally, several functions, such as NAS backup, were not available, so we had to rely on NDMP for backups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Misbahuddin M.

Specialist Data Center

Real Estate

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/17/2025

"Reliable Backup Solution with Room for Modernization"

5/5

What do you like best about Dell NetWorker?

NetWorker is highly reliable for enterprise-scale backups, especially with diverse workloads like databases, file systems, and virtual machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell NetWorker?

The interface and setup can be complex, requiring specialized expertise for administration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mustafa L.

Network Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/25/2024

"Your data is safe"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Dell NetWorker?

Securing your enterpraise data and keeping more than 1 copy with cloning features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell NetWorker?

It need high bandwith internet line to backup data across networks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/19/2022

"Great backup solution"

5/5

What do you like best about Dell NetWorker?

Emc networker is very beneficial for provinding backup solution to large organisation.

It is compatible with multiple operating system and can easily be integrated with storage solution like data domain and physical tape libraries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell NetWorker?

Networker version 18 is not compatible with windows 2008 and lower version . So to backup legacy environment of client , we have to look for other backup solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/3/2015

"Great product. Moving forward!"

4/5

What do you like best about Dell NetWorker?

I like the simple yet complex nature of the application. I appreciate the granularity. I really enjoy the command line interface. Being able to schedule and "forget" is a great option. Overall it is a great product and wish I could have worked with it more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell NetWorker?

I dislike the product being developed using Java. It seems to be an insecure platform for what the end user might be using this product for. Searching through save sets can be unintuitive. Clicking a tab is not usually the first thing one would think to submit a search query. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell NetWorker:

To look into the virtual machine options as I have not. Make sure you're using the right menu for the job. Also, document the steps you use. There are many ways to automate a restore since some of them can take quite a while depending on your environment. As always, be careful and double check your work before moving forward. Backups are always important in an environment and can be the last "line of defense" when an issue occurs. This product gives a good peace of mind to both the end user and administrator.

I unfortunately was not involved in the purchasing and implementation of our rollout but, from what I've been told, it is comparable. It could be because of our use of similar products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell NetWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?

Backing up and restoring MSSQL databases. Taking a production backup to be sanitized and used in development is a great option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/14/2022

"once you get the hangs of it"

4/5

What do you like best about Dell NetWorker?

once it's configured properly, it will be the best backup software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell NetWorker?

be ready to be the best troubleshooter once you have an error Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bill M.

Systems Administrator

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/8/2021

"Networker's robust configurability makes it difficult to use."

1.5/5

What do you like best about Dell NetWorker?

Networker integrates with the data domain storage that we already own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell NetWorker?

Networker is needlessly complicated and difficult to monitor, troubleshoot and manage compared to its competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/22/2019

"Good Product For all Time Backup "

3.5/5

What do you like best about Dell NetWorker?

Dell EMC Networker provide good and enhanced dashboard. User can easily understand which backup is running which is not . We can get backup though this backup solution on multiple environment like Hyper V, VMWare and physical servers. We can recovered a single file from VMbackup, Its has multiple features which help us to maintain or backups fast and secure like, Deduplication,snapshot, full VM backups and file system backups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell NetWorker?

Our experience is not good with networker support from our Asia pacific helpline . Although it is fast and good product, but Vendor (Asia Pacific) expertise not enough to resolved issue quickly. They took too much time resolved any single issue.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Dell NetWorker:

This product is best for multi platform and large environment. Deployment is not easy need more expertise to configure for best result of this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell NetWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fist benefit is, no more manage tape library for get backup, With this tools we run simultaneously multiple backups. We push it all to a data domain. Networker gives us reduced risk of data loss. We also restored many of VM from Network if found any error on Operating System. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David V.

Gestión de Inside Sales, CRM y Marketing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/1/2019

"Works well to make and control backups"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Dell NetWorker?

Power database of backups, multiple options, possibility of take a backup of many dates. Works well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell NetWorker?

A bit slow, not intuitive menus. When you have many backups it's difficult to find you want Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/20/2019

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"Slow performance"

1.5/5

What do you like best about Dell NetWorker?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Dell NetWorker?

It is slow and less performant. Didn't like the performance as much Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Dell NetWorker solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using Microsoft Windows server. NetWorker also supports backup and recovery of Microsoft Windows Server and Hyper-V virtual servers by using the Volume Shadow Copy Services interface. This support protects the parent and child partitions (guests) as well as applications running within the virtual machines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.