Cork site for EMC research unit

US-headquartered data storage company EMC has chosen Co Cork as the base for its new European research and development (R&D) operation.

The new EMC Research Europe operation — which will be headed up by EMC Ireland executive, Donagh Buckley — will be located in Ovens and act as an expansion to the R&D facility established by the group in Cork three years ago.

EMC Research Europe will undertake cloud computing, big data and data centre research for the international market, much of which will be carried out via research partnership agreements with both University College Cork and University of Limerick.