Sunday, September 26, 2010

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

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storagew and information managementgiant (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesda the Media Lab sponsorship is one of severall initiatives coordinated out of EMC Research which will be located at 11 Cambridgse Ctr. in Cambridge, Mass. The center will house EMC’ s security-business research lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as abouft a dozen researchers, technologists and business leaderacross EMC’s business units. The company also has researchg facilities in China andSanta Clara, Calif.
“Researchh and advanced technology groupacross EMC, along with our global university research partners, are discovering and explorinv new technologies that will shape the future of digital said Jeff Nick, EMC seniof vice president and chief technology in a statement. “This is an incrediblse opportunity for EMC to bring together some ofthe world’zs leading research minds and innovators in areas such as personalk information management, information integration and cloud As a consortium sponsor of the MIT Media Lab, EMC will be able to accesds the center’s research on how people use and interact with new EMC said its initial collaboration will be on new models for data ownershipl and usage, interfaces for business transactions and health care IT A consortium sponsorship costs $200,000 per year for a minimum of thres years.
Sponsors receive full intellectual property rights to technology developedc at the lab duringtheir sponsorship. The announcement comes a week after EMC and a grou p of universities and technology companies announced the development of a high performancre computing research facilityin Holyoke, Mass. Other tech giants have built dedicated R& D lab in Cambridge in recentg years. (Nasdaq: MSFT), (Nasdaq: GOOG) and (NYSE: IBM) builg research centers in the city in the pasttwo years.

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