Tom Keane is a corporate vice president at Microsoft with years of experience in the industry. He is a recognized expert on space development, commercial satellite technology, and smart city IoT. At Microsoft, Tom manages mission engineering for the company’s cloud computing services that power the next generation of integrated manufacturing, retail and logistics operations.
His speciality enables high-productivity operations for clients across aerospace and defense programs and commercial satellites in geostationary orbit. Azure operates the world’s largest global network of private data centers, servicing clients from manufacturing to retailing and from defense to civil government. As Tom Keane recalls, more than a million customers have entrusted their most critical workloads to Azure.
Developers, startups, established enterprises and government agencies trust Azure to power their digital transformation. Tom Keane believes that Microsoft’s focus on space development was key in creating the Microsoft Azure Company. Microsoft has empowered developers, startups, and companies with mission-oriented programming abilities.
The Azure services allow people to create and run their applications. They can use the company’s vast array of services to run their application. Microsoft has the capability of creating any service that is needed to run your business. There is nothing that they cannot do, Tom Keane said. The company’s ability to program a system and enable multiple companies with various services is not something other companies can do or can provide.
Tom talks about plans and how projects are planned out worldwide. With Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft has started to use the Azure Machine Learning Service, which will integrate their Machine Learning models into their products. Technology can improve lives and make them better. Tom Keane explains how some of Microsoft’s services can be used in space missions. The company was able to create a system that helped NASA space engineers design designs for spacecraft and satellites.