UCC Anchor University for EMC Research Europe
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UCC Anchor University for EMC Research Europe
04.04.2011

EMC has joined with University College Cork (UCC) as the anchor university research partner for EMC Research Europe. EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, has announced that it has expanded its cloud computing, big data and data centre research programmes with the establishment of EMC Research Europe. The initiative is headquartered from EMC’s Centre of Excellence (COE) in Ovens, Cork, Ireland and led by Donagh Buckley, the newly-appointed Chief Technology Officer and Director of EMC Research Europe, and will initially be staffed by a cross-functional “virtual research team” of EMC technology and business leaders from Ireland and other EMC offices in Europe.

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, comments: “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.”  EMC Research Europe also includes University of Limerick and two other university research centres in Europe - the  Hasso-Plattner Institut (HPI) in Germany and the École Polytechnique  Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.

Picture: Donagh Buckley, Director of EMC Research Europe and Professor Barry O’Sullivan, Chair of Constraint Programming, School of Computer Science, and Director (incoming), Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C), UCC.

 



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