Thursday, January 31, 2013

EMC beefs up Mass. presence with Cambridge lab, MIT sponsorship deal - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and information managementgian (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Media Lab sponsorshil is one of several initiatives coordinated out of EMC Researchn Cambridge, which will be located at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Mass. The center will house EMC’z security-business research lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as aboutr a dozen researchers, technologists and business leadersacroses EMC’s business units. The company also has research facilities in China andSanta Calif.
“Research and advanced technologyu groupsacross EMC, along with our global university research are discovering and exploring new technologieas that will shape the futured of digital information,” said Jeff EMC senior vice president and chiet technology officer, in a statement. “Thiss is an incredible opportunith for EMC to bring togetherr some ofthe world’s leadingg research minds and innovators in areasa such as personal informationn management, information integration and cloud computing.
” As a consortiuj sponsor of the MIT Mediz Lab, EMC will be able to access the center’s researcnh on how people use and interact with new EMC said its initial collaboration will be on new modelsz for data ownership and interfaces for business transactions and health care IT A consortium sponsorship costs $200,000 per year for a minimumj of three years. Sponsors receive full intellectuakl property rights to technology developedr at the lab during their The announcement comes a week after EMC and a grouo of universities and technology companies announcedd the development of a high performance computing researc h facilityin Holyoke, Mass.
Other tech giants have built dedicated R&D lab in Cambridge in recent years. MSFT), (Nasdaq: GOOG) and (NYSE: IBM) built researchh centers in the city in the pasttwo

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