Dell EMC NetWorker 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Dell EMC NetWorker

3.4

(13)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Dell EMC NetWorker

Dell EMC NetWorker is a backup and recovery software that centralizes, accelerates and automates data backup and recovery across existing IT environment. NetWorker delivers record-breaking performance and a wide range of data protection options to safeguard critical business data.

Dell EMC NetWorker offers long-term retention in the cloud, allowing data to be natively tiered to the private, public or hybrid cloud for long-term retention. The Dell EMC NetWorker enables businesses to configure the system with PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (DDVE), which offers a cost-effective data protection solution. It supports backup of applications in a consistent state and guest-level filesystems.

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Dell EMC NetWorker Pricing and Plans

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Dell EMC NetWorker Features

Popular features found in Business Continuity
Backup and Recovery
Disaster Recovery
Incident Management
Risk Assessment
Secure Data Storage
Task Management
More features of Dell EMC NetWorker
Backup Log
Backup Scheduling
Cloud Backup
Compression
Continuous Backup
Encryption
Incremental Backup
Local Server Options

Dell EMC NetWorker User Reviews

Overall Rating

3.4

Ratings Breakdown

23%

31%

23%

15%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.3

Value for money

3.2

Customer support

3.5

Functionality

3.8

ravi r.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2018

Completes the job but require trained people

The projects were made ultra fast with it's help in reliable manner as for backup and recovery.

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Value for money

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Pros:

EMC Avamar and EMC Networker has provided very good recovery options which are lightening fast. It has fast backup option which has helped the projects . De duplication and optimized bandwidths help getting knowledge transferred to correct spots.

Cons:

It did not worked on our Solaris systems which are necessary for company operations. The prices are just ok, could have been cheaper.

Verified

Reviewer

Internet

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Great all around backup software for enterprise

Experience with Networker has been great. Easy to configure. Upgrades work well. Just need to make sure you follow best practices etc.

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Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

Works with most things we need to backup that are enterprise grade. Does VMWare and traditional machine backups very well. Paired with good storage it works great.

Cons:

Managing existing backup sets can be a good bit of work if you need to change expiry dates, etc. Sometimes needing to use the CLI or script for a larger change. But that is very powerful also.

Reasons for choosing Dell EMC NetWorker

Features, pricing and existing Dell/EMC relationship. As well as tight integration with storage on Data Domain.

glen c.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Explore other options before going with Dell/EMC Networker solution

Not Satisfied. The support was lacking and the product was quite expensive. We never had any success with the procuct and it cost us and arm and a leg.

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Pros:

Well known company. When EMC was not affiliated with Dell, the level of competent support was a big drawback

Cons:

support was lacking, the product was not compatibale with our infrstructure, hardware requirements. The install process was quite cumbersome. Very very expensive

Eric R.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Delivery and Support specialist at Mexico City

most of the legacy application and Operating Systems protected for this sofware

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Value for money

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Pros:

Should have more easy of use to the end user due thing like migration to other OS torns like a mess, GUI has no all the functionallities and some of the commandos it only are availables at Command Line Interface

Cons:

Integration with some of the legacy application turns somehow complicated (in the case of SAP), if EMC Networker could offer kind of native deduplication it would becomes one of the greatest option for IT DataProtection

Miguel Angel J.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2018

excellent solution for data backup

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Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

It is a very good solution to perform the backups of medium and large companies that require maintaining high SLA with excellent support

Cons:

Being a very robust solution, it is necessary to make the interfaces more intutive because sometimes it is a bit difficult to administer

Rafael N.

Verified reviewer

Computer Hardware

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

DELL EMC Networker is a complete backup solution that lacks in several points

We inmplement Networker of an environment with VMware cluster and some sparc oracle servers for database oracle, networker does a great work to backup this environment, using DD-Boots software we can finishe the backup more quicly and it has an integration with Data Domain storage backup as repossitory.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

The ability to backup RICS environments like Oracle SPARC, IBM Power and HPE Itanium is the most value for this software, lacks to backup pc´s o laptos with an easy interface. Networker is a robust software for enterprise companies with a mix of operating systems, applications and infraestructure.

Cons:

The lack of backup pc´s and laptops easy, another thing that cant backup is Postgress and Cassandra DB with an agent. Another bad point is the cost of the software if you use capacity model, the costo is too high thats the reason that only gih and mid range companies can afford the adquisition.

Reasons for choosing Dell EMC NetWorker

Because the integration between hardware and software of DELL EMC offers a great backup solutions and the ability to backup RISK systems, another software needs other plugins and thrid party integrations.

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Reviewer

Financial Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

NetWorker... happy to replace it

It was a bad experience and I don’t recommend it to anybody. We had som many issue with the product that we regret buying it after a couple of months. Also support is not good at all, we had to pay extra to get something better.

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Value for money

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Pros:

Difficult to answer this... probably the deal we had initially, it was cheap... maybe we had to worry why before buying it. Like everything you get what you paid for.

Cons:

So many bug everywhere, could be much easier to deploy and maintain. This product was developed years ago and it is wired it is not more stable.

Reasons for choosing Dell EMC NetWorker

The price but it was a mistake.

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Reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2021

Dell EMC Networker Best Backup Tool for Enterprise Business

previously we use normal backup to backup the file windows only but later on we add one more tool is dell networker to backup linux too, so we can backup it all. its very powerful tool for backup the various file system.

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Pros:

Dell EMC NetWorker is a backup software platform for the enterprise. NetWorker is designed to back up data from a variety of systems, its offers support for mcos, windows, OpenVMS and linux.

Cons:

its very powerful tool of backup that provided by dell already, i recommend.

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Reviewer

Banking

501-1000 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

Outdated. Much better options out there.

No longer a viable option in my opinion. Look elsewhere (Veeam).

Ratings Breakdown

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Functionality

Pros:

Can't think of much. There was a time where it was good enough, but that time has passed. There are now much better options out there that are easier, more reliable, and cheaper.

Cons:

Overly complex and expensive, never worked reliably, we got caught with pitfalls more than once. Antiquated UI, not intuitive.