Introduction

On May 7, 2007, EMC Corporation launched a global collaborative research program, the EMC Innovation Network, in which EMC Research China (ERC) and RSA Laboratories are the first two research groups. These laboratories conduct core research in topics of high interest to EMC and the industry partners, explore groundbreaking technologies at the cutting edge of innovation, and bring expanded knowledge to other groups in EMC. ERC is the first core research group that EMC has established outside the United States.

Located in Beijing, China within the precinct to a number of top Chinese universities and many academic centers of excellence, ERC aims to not only attract the best talents from across China and the world, but also facilitate academic interactions through easy accessibilities to and sharing of resources such as national/international visitors, technical seminars and professional forums (e.g., conferences and workshops). ERC will also build a close collaborative relationship with Chinese scientific, technological and educational communities.

Interested Research Topics

• Personal Information Management

• Web2.0 and Knowledge Management

• Trusted Computing

• Virtualization

• Grid Security

• Private Information Retrieval

• Green IT

Research 2.0 Vision

• Tolerating failure is necessary in order to allow people to think creatively, EMC CEO Joe Tucci told eWeek in May. "This might sound crazy, but you have to have an environment which encourages failure," he said.

• Collaborating on a new process "We start with a strategic intent and clear strategic path and Innovation Network to unleash the power of technical community to work on problems. Each brings their own technology to bear, and we have an innovation pipeline to show the way to materialize that into marketplace at accelerated rate with downstream product delivery and a feedback loop to the innovation process. " It's really all about materialization through process innovation ". -- Jeff Nick, EMC CTO, quoted in Dan Farber, "Connecting the Dots with EMC CTO Jeff Nick", May 29, 2007.

• "It all begins from Web 2.0" In a keynote talk at China Software Development 2.0 Conference Wenbo Mao described EMC's vision of Research 2.0 using a Web 2.0 analogy: "chmod 777 www". He said: "change mode to 777 stands for collaboration among You, I, and the world, for information access, editing and execution (i.e., knowledge creation)%u201D. Thus, EIN's vision of Research 2.0, or "chmod 777 research", describes the notion of intra-EIN collaborations among core research labs, cross-organization collaborations with globally distributed Advanced Development Groups and Centers of Excellences, and world-wide collaborations with universities and external business partners, of course with growing use of Web 2.0 tools and methods. The following is Wenbo's presentation at the conference: EMC Innovation Network's Research and Development 2.0
  

Team members

JidongChen, Senior Research Scientist

HangGuo,Research Scientist

ChangLei, Research Scientist

JunLi, Research Scientist

WenboMao, Director and Chief Engineer

ZiyeYang, Research Scientist

JingchengZhang, Research Scientist

Conferences

ERC Organized Conferences
ERC Sponsored Conferences
ERC ConferenceTalks

Upcoming events

• The 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) - Beijing, China, April 27-30, 2008 EMC sponsored this conference and Jidong is the Local Organizing Committee.

How to find us

8/F, Block D, Tsinghua Science Park
1 ZhongGuanCunDong Road, HaiDian District, Beijing 100084 China
Tel: +86 (0)10 8215 8707
Fax: +86 (0)10 8215 8805

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