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The EMC Innovation Network
usinfo | 2013-01-04 16:49
Research and advanced technology groups across EMC and their university research partners are discovering and exploring technologies that will shape the information infrastructure of the future.
The world is witnessing key "inflection points" in how information technology is delivered, managed, and used. Many areas remain to be explored:
Service-oriented infrastructures
Information-centric security
"Web 2.0" storage for millions of users
Information grids
Virtualization of information infrastructure within and across organizations
"Web 2.0" storage for millions of users
Information grids
Virtualization of information infrastructure within and across organizations
The EMC Innovation Network is a worldwide collaboration of advanced technology researchers exploring these and many other areas. Some, such as the technologists at RSA Laboratories and EMC Research China, are academically oriented. Others deliver commercial concepts as prototypes, product proposals, and patents.
EMC launched the network in May 2007 and continues to add to the network's projects and partnerships.
Recent EMC Innovation Network projects
Here's a sample of advanced R&D projects ongoing across EMC:
Scalable file systems — EMC is working with academic researchers and open source developers to enable file systems to scale to the enormous capacity of modern storage systems. They are examining how to harden the IO (input/output) and file system stack for error handling and make systems repairable faster. On the academic side, EMC has worked with Carnegie Mellon University's Parallel Data Lab and the University of Michigan's CITI team. In the Linux realm, EMC has sponsored and actively participated in IO and file system development.
RFID security and privacy — Anticipating the billions, even trillions of tiny radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags that will circulate in the coming years, RSA Laboratories is developing security and privacy technologies for the tags and the systems that manage them. EMC is doing this work with university researchers through the RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy. In addition, RSA is researching new and enhanced authentication techniques. Projects include Life-Question Authentication, Authentication by Vouching, and Secret Splitting.
eXtensible Access Method (XAM) — EMC® Centera's® advanced development team is conducting research related to the XAM interface. University of New Hampshire is now testing storage-related products in its InterOperability Laboratory.
New technologies and power savings for storage — Technologists in the EMC Symmetrix business unit are looking at incorporating new technologies into the storage systems, and they are examining approaches and algorithms for power savings.
Physical storage — EMC's researchers are tracking advances in storage tied to holography, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), nanotechnology, and more. They are determining how such advances might affect the storage industry in the long term, and they are providing guidance to colleagues regarding potential application requirements.
Trusted infrastructures — As a partner in the Daoli Project, EMC Research China is collaborating with university researchers to design methods for obtaining assurance of "behavior conformity" in distributed systems such as information grids, through a combination of trusted computing and virtualization.
The world is witnessing key "inflection points" in how information technology is delivered, managed, and used. Many areas remain to be explored:
Service-oriented infrastructures
Information-centric security
"Web 2.0" storage for millions of users
Information grids
Virtualization of information infrastructure within and across organizations
"Web 2.0" storage for millions of users
Information grids
Virtualization of information infrastructure within and across organizations
The EMC Innovation Network is a worldwide collaboration of advanced technology researchers exploring these and many other areas. Some, such as the technologists at RSA Laboratories and EMC Research China, are academically oriented. Others deliver commercial concepts as prototypes, product proposals, and patents.
EMC launched the network in May 2007 and continues to add to the network's projects and partnerships.
Recent EMC Innovation Network projects
Here's a sample of advanced R&D projects ongoing across EMC:
Scalable file systems — EMC is working with academic researchers and open source developers to enable file systems to scale to the enormous capacity of modern storage systems. They are examining how to harden the IO (input/output) and file system stack for error handling and make systems repairable faster. On the academic side, EMC has worked with Carnegie Mellon University's Parallel Data Lab and the University of Michigan's CITI team. In the Linux realm, EMC has sponsored and actively participated in IO and file system development.
RFID security and privacy — Anticipating the billions, even trillions of tiny radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags that will circulate in the coming years, RSA Laboratories is developing security and privacy technologies for the tags and the systems that manage them. EMC is doing this work with university researchers through the RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy. In addition, RSA is researching new and enhanced authentication techniques. Projects include Life-Question Authentication, Authentication by Vouching, and Secret Splitting.
eXtensible Access Method (XAM) — EMC® Centera's® advanced development team is conducting research related to the XAM interface. University of New Hampshire is now testing storage-related products in its InterOperability Laboratory.
New technologies and power savings for storage — Technologists in the EMC Symmetrix business unit are looking at incorporating new technologies into the storage systems, and they are examining approaches and algorithms for power savings.
Physical storage — EMC's researchers are tracking advances in storage tied to holography, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), nanotechnology, and more. They are determining how such advances might affect the storage industry in the long term, and they are providing guidance to colleagues regarding potential application requirements.
Trusted infrastructures — As a partner in the Daoli Project, EMC Research China is collaborating with university researchers to design methods for obtaining assurance of "behavior conformity" in distributed systems such as information grids, through a combination of trusted computing and virtualization.
