EMC has expanded its cloud computing, ‘big data’ and data centre research programmes through the creation of EMC Research Europe, which will be headquartered from EMC’s Centre of Excellence (COE) in Ovens, Cork.
The new research body will be led by Donagh Buckley, who has been appointed chief technology officer (CTO) and director of EMC Research Europe.
EMC said that the EMC Research Europe will advance the EMC Innovation Network, which is a worldwide collaboration of researchers from across EMC and its university research partners. Locally, the body will parnter with University College Cork. It will be staffed initially by a cross-functional “virtual research team” of EMC technology and business leaders from Ireland and other EMC offices in Europe.
“EMC’s global R&D centres play a vital role in helping the company explore the impact of new technologies,” said said Jeff Nick, EMC senior vice president and chief technology officer. “We’re looking forward to the insights our researchers at the Cork centre and other offices in the region will bring the company in collaboration with university partners in Europe.”
“EMC is committed to bringing together some of Europe’s leading research minds and innovators and collaborating with them in essential information technologies,” said Adrian McDonald, senior vice president and general manager for UK and Ireland at EMC. “This new European research initiative is a key step in the further development of Ireland’s support role for EMC at a European and global level.”
UCC has collaborated with EMC since it established its International Operations campus in Cork in 1988. EMC researchers are now co-located on the UCC campus in partnership with UCC’s Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C). Co-funded by the Science Foundation Ireland, the focus of these research programmes is cloud computing and data centre optimisation and data centre energy management. This alliance acts as a platform for the collaboration of some of Ireland’s leading researchers and innovators, and provides access to specialist industry and academic expertise and leading edge data analytics, essential for research of this kind. This programme has also created a platform for collaboration across other areas of research.
Professor Barry O’Sullivan, chair of Constraint Programming, School of Computer Science, and director (incoming), Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C), at UCC, said “We are delighted to have the opportunity to collaborate with EMC on its new European Research Initiative which will further strengthen the close relationship built up between EMC and University College Cork over the years. This partnership will also benefit from Science Foundation Ireland’s investment in 4C.”
The research collaborations of EMC Research Europe will initially be centralised in Ireland, with the longer-term objective of strengthening relationships throughout Europe and developing ties with other research initiatives in the global EMC Innovation Network – including those underway at the other EMC COEs. For example, EMC’s Research and Development Centre has been working closely with the University of Limerick over the past two years as part of the 2008 R&D investment; in addition to this, new collaborations are already underway at two other university research centres in Europe – the Hasso-Plattner Institut (HPI) in Germany and the
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