Amtrak will start running a Siemens-made electric locomotive on the operator’s inter-city passenger rail lines beginning on Friday. Siemens and Amtrak executives celebrated the locomotive’s debut at a ceremony held Thursday on the 30th Street Amtrak station in Philadelphia, Siemens said Thursday. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx attended the unveiling. […] More

Leidos will deploy additional meters for United Power’s metering infrastructure work under the second phase of a 10-year contract. Leidos started implementing 20,000 meters for the Colorado-based electric cooperative in October 2013 and intends to complete the second phase by September 2014, the company said Wednesday. James Baxter, senior vice president for energy services at […] More

Verizon‘s enterprise services arm will offer its cloud computing customers access to the SAP HANA platform. SAP intends to deploy its cloud platform to customers through Verizon’s ecosystem that comprises of the eCloud, Managed Hosting and the new Verizon Cloud environments, Verizon said Wednesday. John Harrobin, chief marketing officer for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said the company […] More

John Schumacher serves as the vice president for business relations of GenCorp, the parent of Aerojet General Corp., where he handles the growth plans of the company’s government-related aerospace and defense business. Schumacher also supports Warren Boley, Aerojet president, and the subsidiary’s operations in Washington. He has previously served as Aerojet vice president of Washington […] More

Turner Construction Co. is continuing its educational program for the youth of Baltimore, Md., including ongoing classes concerning the construction industry. As a part of the Youthforce 2020 program, the company’s community affairs director, Dexter Hendricks, meets with  City Springs Elementary and Middle School students once a month, according to a Baltimore Curriculum Project blog post […] More

A health monitoring application that  Splunk developed for VMware developed was selected for the editor’s choice award in the server virtualization category of Virtualization Review’s 2014 Reader’s Choice Awards. The Splunk App for VMware is designed to correlate VMware data with data from other technologies and insights on performance, capacity and security analytics, Splunk announced Monday. “In the information […] More

A team of IBM computer scientists and Trinity College Dublin researchers have developed a set of algorithms intended to reduce data centers’ environmental impact by routing cloud computing tasks, VentureBeat reported Monday. Jordan Novet writes the experiment came after IBM obtained a patent in October for a method to identify which facility receives networking requests based on […] More