EMC Corporation – Best workplace in the Cloud

Being cryptic and brief was quite common when naming startup companies in the United States 30 or 40 years ago. When two American engineers created a venture for production of computer memory boards in 1979, they combined their initials and a third letter into EMC Corporation, garnished it with a visual reference to Einstein’s relativity formula and grew it into a specialist information technology (IT) company under a cloak of mild obscurity, known best among true nerds and corporate IT managers.    Today, the company boasts $20 billion in consolidated revenue with double-digit growth in 2011 driven by demand for its data storage, information management and security and cloud computing products. It has 48,500 employees worldwide and spent 11 percent of last year’s consolidated revenue on research and development, according to results announced last month.     In 1999, EMC set up its first office in the Middle East in