Tuesday, 3 May 2011

EMC beefs up Mass. presence with Cambridge lab, MIT sponsorship deal - Business Courier of Cincinnati:

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and informatiojn managementgiant (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesdahy the Media Lab sponsorship is one of several initiativez coordinated out of EMC Research Cambridge, which will be located at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Mass. The center will house EMC’s security-business researcb lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as abouyt a dozen researchers, technologistsd and business leadersacross EMC’s business units. The company also has researchb facilities in China andSanta Clara, Calif.
“Researcy and advanced technology groupsacross EMC, along with our global university research partners, are discovering and exploring new technologiez that will shape the futur e of digital information,” said Jeff Nick, EMC senior vice president and chief technology officer, in a “This is an incredible opportunity for EMC to bring together some of the world’s leadin research minds and innovators in areas such as personalp information management, information integration and cloud computing.” As a consortiumk sponsor of the MIT Media Lab, EMC will be able to access the center’xs research on how people use and interacrt with new technologies.
EMC said its initial collaboratiobn will be on new models for data ownershi pand usage, interfaces for business transactionx and health care IT initiatives. A consortium sponsorshiop costs $200,000 per year for a minimum of thre years. Sponsors receive full intellectuaol property rights to technology developed at the lab durintheir sponsorship. The announcement comes a week after EMC and a groupl of universities and technology companies announced the development of a high performancew computing research facilityin Holyoke, Mass. Other tech giants have built dedicated R&D lab in Cambridged in recent years.
(Nasdaq: (Nasdaq: GOOG) and (NYSE: IBM) builtg research centers in the city in the pasttwo

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