Sunday, June 10, 2012

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

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and information managementgiant (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesdayu the Media Lab sponsorship is one of severa l initiatives coordinated out of EMC Research Cambridge, whicyh will be located at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Mass. The center will house EMC’s security-business researchy lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as about a dozen researchers, technologistw and business leadersacross EMC’s businesx units.
The company also has research facilities in Chinw andSanta Clara, “Research and advanced technology groups across EMC, alongf with our global universitt research partners, are discovering and explorinh new technologies that will shape the future of digital said Jeff Nick, EMC senior vice presidenf and chief technology officer, in a statement. “Thiws is an incredible opportunity for EMC to brinvg together some ofthe world’s leading researcy minds and innovators in areaxs such as personal information management, informatio integration and cloud computing.
” As a consortium sponsod of the MIT Media Lab, EMC will be able to accesws the center’s research on how people use and interact with new EMC said its initial collaboration will be on new modelw for data ownership and usage, interfaced for business transactions and health care IT A consortium sponsorship costs $200,000 per year for a minimukm of three years. Sponsors receive full intellectual property rights to technology developed at the lab durintgtheir sponsorship. The announcement comess a week after EMC and a group of universities and technologuy companies announced the development of a high performancew computing research facilityin Holyoke, Mass.
Othefr tech giants have built dedicated R&D lab in Cambridgde in recent years. (Nasdaq: (Nasdaq: GOOG) and (NYSE: IBM) built research centers in the city in the pasttwo

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