Monday, November 7, 2011

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

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The Hopkinton, Mass., storage and information managementgianf (NYSE: EMC) said Wednesday the Media Lab sponsorshil is one of several initiatives coordinated out of EMC Researchu Cambridge, which will be located at 11 Cambridgee Ctr. in Cambridge, Mass. The center will housw EMC’s security-business research lab, RSA Laboratories, as well as about a dozebn researchers, technologists and business leadersacrosx EMC’s business units. The company also has research facilities in Chinw andSanta Clara, Calif.
“Research and advanced technology groupsacross EMC, alonhg with our global university researcyh partners, are discovering and exploring new technologiews that will shape the future of digital said Jeff Nick, EMC seniore vice president and chief technology in a statement. “This is an incredible opportunity for EMC to brin g together some ofthe world’ s leading research minds and innovator s in areas such as persona information management, information integratio and cloud computing.” As a consortium sponsor of the MIT Mediaw Lab, EMC will be able to access the center’sa research on how people use and interact with new technologies.
EMC said its initia collaboration will be on new models for data ownershiopand usage, interfaces for business transactions and healtbh care IT initiatives. A consortiunm sponsorship costs $200,000 per year for a minimum of threde years. Sponsors receive full intellectual property rightd to technology developed at the lab durinftheir sponsorship. The announcement comes a week afte r EMC and a group of universities and technologh companies announced the development of a high performance computing researcgh facilityin Holyoke, Mass. Othe tech giants have built dedicated R&D lab in Cambridgde in recent years.
(Nasdaq: MSFT), GOOG) and (NYSE: IBM) built research centers in the city in the pasttwo

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