EMC Corporation is the world's leading information infrastructure company, and spearheads technological innovation in the areas of storage, security, virtualization, management, recovery, computational infrastructure and Big Data. The company is ranked as the sixth largest software company in the world, and the seventh largest IT company in terms of market value. As of 2013, EMC employs over 60,000 people who work in 83 locations worldwide; EMC is active in Israel since 1999. In 2006, following several Israeli acquisitions, EMC established the EMC Development Center, which joined the existing Sales and Services Organization, in Petach Tikva. In 2011, this Center became the EMC Israel Center of Excellence (COE), headquartered in Herzliya, and managed by Dr. Orna Berry, Corporate Vice President, former chief Scientist of Israel. Several months later, the COE opened a strategic R&D branch in Be'er Sheva, and became the first multinational company in Israel with presence in the Negev, and in the past year opened yet another center in the northern city of Haifa. Over the last few years, the CoE has registered over 200 patents in Israel and is Constantly growing in all locations and are hiring leading SW engineers, young graduates or students close to graduation.
