Monday, October 29, 2012

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

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and information managementgiant (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Media Lab sponsorshil is one of several initiatives coordinated out of EMC Research Cambridge, which will be locate d at 11 Cambridge Ctr. in Mass. The center will house EMC’s security-businessa research lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as abouf a dozen researchers, technologists and business leadersxacross EMC’s business units. The company also has research facilitiexs in China andSantaz Clara, Calif.
“Research and advanced technology groupsacrossa EMC, along with our global university researchh partners, are discovering and exploring new technologies that will shapr the future of digital information,” said Jeff EMC senior vice president and chief technology officer, in a statement. “This is an incredibles opportunity for EMC to bring togethedr some ofthe world’s leadingg research minds and innovators in area such as personal information information integration and cloud As a consortium sponsor of the MIT Mediaq Lab, EMC will be able to accesss the center’s research on how people use and interact with new EMC said its initial collaboration will be on new models for data ownership and interfaces for business transactions and health care IT A consortium sponsorship costs $200,000 per year for a minimukm of three years.
Sponsors receive full intellectual properthy rights to technology developed at the lab duringtheirf sponsorship. The announcement comes a week after EMC and a groupl of universities and technology companies announced the developmentt of a high performances computing research facilityin Mass. Other tech giants have built dedicatecd R&D lab in Cambridge in recent (Nasdaq: MSFT), (Nasdaq: GOOG) and (NYSE: IBM) built research centers in the city in the pasttwo

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