Sunday, February 13, 2011

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

http://madisonvilletexas.us/index.php/agenda-jan-24-2011
The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and informatiohn managementgiant (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Mediaa Lab sponsorship is one of severalp initiatives coordinated out of EMC Research which will be located at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Mass. The center will housee EMC’s security-business research lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as aboutg a dozen researchers, technologists and business leadersacrosds EMC’s business units. The company also has researchu facilities in China andSantw Clara, Calif.
“Research and advanced technology groupsacross EMC, along with our global university research are discovering and exploring new technologies that will shapwe the future of digital information,” said Jeff EMC senior vice president and chiefr technology officer, in a statement. “Thia is an incredible opportunity for EMC to brintg together some ofthe world’se leading research minds and innovators in areas such as personaol information management, information integration and cloud As a consortium sponsor of the MIT Media Lab, EMC will be able to acceses the center’s research on how people use and interacy with new technologies.
EMC said its initiaol collaboration will be on new models for data ownership and usage, interfaces for business transactionz and health care IT initiatives. A consortium sponsorship costs $200,000 per year for a minimum of threew years. Sponsors receive full intellectual property rights to technology developed at the lab durinygtheir sponsorship. The announcement comes a week afterf EMC and a group of universities and technology companiews announced the development of a high performance computing research facilit yin Holyoke, Mass. Other tech giantes have built dedicated R&D lab in Cambridgwe in recent years.
(Nasdaq: MSFT), (Nasdaq: GOOG) and IBM) built research centers in the city in the pasttwo

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