The $20 billion global digital storage company EMC Corp. officially opened a technical support center in Draper on Wednesday that is expected to eventually employ about 500 people with high-tech and customer service skills.
The 25,000-square-foot center has been operating since December, and EMC officials said they expect to have the 500 jobs filled by the end of 2015. To qualify for a $3.5 million state tax incentive, the jobs are to pay at least 125 percent of Salt Lake County’s average annual wage of $41,636 in 2011, or about $52,000.
EMC provides computer storage hardware and software for its clients, focusing on cloud computing that involves large banks of servers operating together. The company has 53,000 employees worldwide and eight other customer support centers.
Elias said Utah was chosen after the company decided to create a U.S. customer center that would serve federal agencies and companies that wanted services that were U.S. based. It also wanted a location that could supply workers who spoke Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese to serve Central and South American companies’ information technology needs. Salt Lake Tribune
