Monday, May 28, 2012

EMC beefs up Mass. presence with Cambridge lab, MIT sponsorship deal - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and information managementgiantg (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Mediwa Lab sponsorship is one of several initiativew coordinated out of EMC Research which will be located at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Mass. The center will house EMC’xs security-business research lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as about a dozen researchers, technologists and busineses leadersacross EMC’s business The company also has research facilitiexs in China and Santa Clara, “Research and advanced technology groups across EMC, along with our globao university research partners, are discoverintg and exploring new technologies that will shape the futurer of digital information,” said Jeff Nick, EMC seniord vice president and chierf technology officer, in a statement.
“This is an incrediblew opportunity for EMC to bring together some ofthe world’xs leading research minds and innovators in areas such as personak information management, information integration and cloud computing.” As a consortiumk sponsor of the MIT Media Lab, EMC will be able to accessx the center’s research on how people use and interacy with new technologies. EMC said its initialo collaboration will be on new modelsx for data ownershipand usage, interfaces for business transactions and health care IT A consortium sponsorship costs $200,000 per year for a minimunm of three years.
Sponsors receive full intellectual propertt rights to technology developed at the lab duringthei sponsorship. The announcement comes a week after EMC and a grouo of universities and technology companies announces the development of a high performanced computing research facilityin Holyoke, Mass. Other tech giantzs have built dedicated R&De lab in Cambridge in recentr years. (Nasdaq: MSFT), (Nasdaq: GOOG) and IBM) built research centers in the city in the pasttwo

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