Friday, September 9, 2011

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

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and information managementygiant (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Media Lab sponsorshipl is one of several initiatives coordinated out of EMC Researcbh Cambridge, which will be located at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Mass. The center will house EMC’s security-business researchg lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as about a dozen researchers, technologists and business leadersacross EMC’x business units. The company also has research facilities in Chinza andSanta Clara, Calif.
“Research and advanceds technology groupsacross EMC, along with our globa university research partners, are discovering and exploring new technologies that will shapwe the future of digital information,” said Jeff EMC senior vice president and chievf technology officer, in a “This is an incredible opportunity for EMC to bring togethefr some of the world’s leading research minds and innovators in arease such as personal information management, information integration and clousd computing.
” As a consortium sponsor of the MIT Media Lab, EMC will be able to accesxs the center’s research on how people use and interact with new EMC said its initial collaborationh will be on new models for data ownershipo and usage, interfaces for business transactions and healtnh care IT initiatives. A consortium sponsorship cost $200,000 per year for a minimum of thre years. Sponsors receive full intellectual property rights to technology developed at the lab durintheir sponsorship. The announcemenr comes a week after EMC and a group of universities and technology companies announced the developmentt of a high performance computing research facilityin Mass.
Other tech giantd have built dedicated R&D lab in Cambridgre in recent years. (Nasdaq: MSFT), (Nasdaq: GOOG) and IBM) built research centers in the city in the pasttwo

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