Led by Dr Burt Kaliski, formerly Chief Scientist for RSA Laboratories (RSA, The Security Division of EMC), the EMC Innovation Network will have a strong emphasis on adding immediate value to EMC customers by quickly converting resulting innovations into practical solutions. The EMC Innovation Network will broaden the company's engagements with leading university research programmes and consortia, including Carnegie Mellon University's Parallel Data Lab Indiana University's Data and Search Institute RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy, whose participants include faculty from Johns Hopkins University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst Stanford University's Applied Crypto Group University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration.ĮMC also provides research sponsorships at Northeastern University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in addition to a wide range of other relationships, including CalTech, MIT, North Carolina State University and several international universities. The global collaboration will harness the collective knowledge of EMC's extended research community and expand the value of EMC's more than $1 billion annual R&D investment. Through the new EMC Innovation Network, EMC will harness the collective research and development power of its approximately 5 000 technical R&D employees align research resources from around the globe, including those housed in EMC India-, China- and Russia-based centres of excellence and foster academic collaboration through new and existing university and consortia relationships. * Virtualisation of information infrastructure within and across organisational boundaries * Information grid for real-time, complex information analytics. * 'Web 2.0' storage that scales gracefully to communities of millions of users * Service-oriented infrastructures for IT orchestration and business IT insight. * Semantic Web, search, context and ontological views.

Through the EMC Innovation Network, EMC will explore areas such as: In addition to a broad range of ongoing EMC advanced development and research, the EMC Innovation Network will explore key insights into how information technology is delivered, particularly as it relates to the management and use of information itself. The global, collaborative community, including some of the world's brightest technology minds comprises EMC research, advanced development resources, university research partners and key customers that will seek to drive the exploration, discovery and application of new technologies that will shape the future of information infrastructure. EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the formation of the new EMC Innovation Network.

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