Non-for-profit teachers corps Teach for America is using solutions from EMC to protect its rapidly growing IT environment.  The organization serves over 750,000 students in the United States and leverages a combination of Avamar dedupe, Data Domain and NetWorker to make sure critical data is not lost.

“We chose an integrated hybrid solution from EMC to leverage the various technologies that could keep pace with our growth,” said Thomas Licciardell, the head of Teach for America’s technology ops EMC has a broad, well integrated portfolio of backup and recovery solutions that we’re confident will enable our organization to expand so we can reach more children for years to come.”

The organization cites faster backups and recovery times, extended data retention times and the ability to run a move efficient more operation overall.  Teach for America deployed Avamar and Data Domain in a remote site to replicate their main VMware environment for disaster recovery purposes.

EMC is big on backup and recovery. It has a huge presence in this area thanks to a combination of a few aggressive acquisitions and a lot of organic growth in recent years, and it’s own internal backup environment also merits some bragging rights. Darryl Smith, who holds the title of chief Oracle architect at EMC, sat down in theCube earlier this month to discuss how his company backs up 100 terabytes of data every day.

The deployment consists of about 900 separate databases, according to Smith, and uses a combo of EMC technology and software from Oracle. In particular, the firm leverages Oracle’s RMAN Recovery Manager in conjunction with Data Domain.

The architect boasted that 84 percent of the database environment and 98 percent of the servers and are VMware virtualized.