Friday, February 10, 2012

EMC beefs up Mass. presence with Cambridge lab, MIT sponsorship deal - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and information managemenytgiant (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Mediza Lab sponsorship is one of several initiatives coordinateds out of EMC Research Cambridge, which will be located at 11 Cambridgwe Ctr. in Cambridge, Mass. The center will house EMC’sw security-business research lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as about a dozehn researchers, technologists and business leaderacross EMC’s business units. The compan y also has research facilities in China andSantqa Clara, Calif.
“Research and advancedc technology groupsacross EMC, along with our globakl university research partners, are discovering and explorinh new technologies that will shape the futurs of digital information,” said Jeff Nick, EMC seniod vice president and chief technology in a statement. “This is an incredible opportunity for EMC to brinbg together some ofthe world’s leadingv research minds and innovators in areas such as personapl information management, information integration and cloud computing.
” As a consortium sponsorr of the MIT Media Lab, EMC will be able to access the center’s research on how people use and interact with new EMC said its initial collaboration will be on new model for data ownership and usage, interfaces for businessx transactions and health care IT A consortium sponsorship costs $200,000 per year for a minimujm of three years. Sponsors receiv full intellectual property rights to technology develope d at the lab during their The announcement comes a week after EMC and a groulp of universities and technology companiesd announced the development of a high performance computinh research facilityin Holyoke, Other tech giants have built dedicated R&D lab in Cambridge in recentg years.
(Nasdaq: MSFT), (Nasdaq: GOOG) and IBM) built research centers in the city in the pasttwo

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