Infotech Lead Asia: EMC India will focus on developing new Hybrid cloud solutions for emerging business challenges.
As part of its big data initiative, EMC India Center of Excellence (COE) has tied up with the Center for Cloud Computing and Big Data at the Department of Computer Science of the PES Institute of Technology (PESIT), Bangalore.
This is EMC’s third research partnership in India. Through such tie ups, EMC aims to combine strengths offered with its own to discover technologies and new approaches in information infrastructure.
Niranjan Thirumale, CTO, EMC India Center of Excellence said: “Cloud computing has reached a higher level of maturity with its advanced infrastructure, software and service offerings. Deep research in this sector will further enable the market to realize the value of this technology.”
The research team comprising of faculty from CCBD and 26 students from the college will work collaboratively with the worldwide network of research expertise and resources within EMC. The research efforts will spread over one year time frame and will continue as required.
EMC aims to extend its research collaboration in India considerably, and establish strong engagements with Indian technical institutes that offer subject matter expertise and deep technical know-how on information infrastructure technologies.
EMC’s earlier partnerships include research on the analysis of unstructured data with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc), and research on information security with Amrita University, Coimbatore.