Tuesday, September 25, 2012

EMC beefs up Mass. presence with Cambridge lab, MIT sponsorship deal - San Francisco Business Times:

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and informatio managementgiant (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Media Lab sponsorship is one of severakl initiatives coordinated out of EMC Research Cambridge, which will be locatesd at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Cambridge, Mass. The cented will house EMC’s security-business researchu lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as about a dozenm researchers, technologists and business leadersacrossw EMC’s business units. The company also has researcb facilities in China andSantwa Clara, Calif.
“Research and advance technology groupsacross EMC, along with our global universithy research partners, are discovering and exploring new technologies that will shap the future of digitalo information,” said Jeff Nick, EMC senior vice presidengt and chief technology officer, in a statement. “Thi s is an incredible opportunity for EMC to brinb together some ofthe world’s leadin g research minds and innovators in areas such as personalp information management, information integrationn and cloud computing.
” As a consortium sponsot of the MIT Medias Lab, EMC will be able to access the center’s researchy on how people use and interact with new EMC said its initial collaboration will be on new modelzs for data ownership and usage, interfaces for business transactionss and health care IT initiatives. A consortiumm sponsorship costs $200,000 per year for a minimum of threer years. Sponsors receive full intellectual property rights to technolog y developed at the lab during their The announcement comes a week after EMC and a group of universitieds and technology companies announcedf the development of a high performance computing research facilitgin Holyoke, Mass.
Other tech giantsx have built dedicated R&D lab in Cambridge in recentr years. (Nasdaq: MSFT), (Nasdaq: GOOG) and (NYSE: IBM) builtr research centers in the city in the pasttwo

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