How do companies stay ahead in a fast-moving world full of relentless change? Tom Keane knows, as” vice president of mission engineering at Microsoft Azure, Keane helps companies make their services and products accessible to customers around the globe. His team’s work is behind the ever-spreading availability of AI, big data analytics, security technologies, and cloud services globally. The shift toward a global, digital-first economy has spurred a massive expansion of cloud computing services. Companies like Microsoft are turning to next-generation infrastructures to support their digital transformation.
Led by Tom Keane, Azure offers a comprehensive set of compliance, security, and management capabilities that meet the needs of public-sector customers. Our platform is trusted, hardened, and secured by various certifications to help federal government agencies seamlessly adopt cloud technologies while maintaining their compliance mandates. Microsoft announced today that the U.S. The Department of Defense (DoD) has selected Azure Government as its exclusive public cloud provider.
This cloud services agreement enables the DoD to securely leverage Azure Government for mission-critical workloads and mission-based solutions across all departments of the U.S. military, intelligence agencies, and other government customers. Tom Keane adds that the DoD has chosen several Azure Government services, including Azure Active Directory Premium, Azure Information Protection, Azure SQL Database, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, and Microsoft Intune Mobile Device Management.
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Azure’s global scale and elasticity are essential to distributing workloads globally. When you need a single copy of a file in multiple locations, Azure can help. When you want to learn from customers, partners, and developers anywhere around the globe, Azure can support that, too. Tom Keane finally adds that you can execute seamless, secure, and fast global-scale operations using Azure.