EMC's India research centre extends third collaboration in India

Will focus on developing hybrid clouds

EMC India Center of Excellence will extend its third partnership in India by collaborating with PESIT, Bangalore in the development of hybrid clouds. This comes under EMC's global research program – the EMC Innovation Network – where the company collaborates with universities to discover technologies and new approaches in information infrastructure.

Hybrid clouds are a combination of both private and public clouds where both the internal and external resources are combined and helps in saving costs, improves service levels and agility. Hybrid clouds are likely to be the next level of cloud computing, stated a news release from EMC.

Commenting on the announcement, Niranjan Thirumale, Chief Technology Officer, 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.”

EMC is looking to further extend its research collaboration in India, and collaborate with Indian technical institutes that offer subject matter expertise and deep technical know-how on information infrastructure technologies, said the company statement.