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Tom Keane

Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure

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Partners, Serverless

Published • 6 min read

Empowering space development off the planet with Azure 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure

Any developer can be a space developer with Azure. Microsoft has a long history of empowering the software development community. We have the world’s most comprehensive developer tools and platforms from Github to Visual Studio, and we support a wide range of industries and use cases from healthcare, financial services, critical industries, and now space.

Announcements, Azure Orbital Ground Station, Networking

Published • 6 min read

New satellite connectivity and geospatial capabilities with Azure Space 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure

The power of extracting and leveraging data collected from space can transform entire industries and create new paradigms. Azure Space, through partnerships, space data, our collaboration tools, and Microsoft services and capabilities, unlock powerful possibilities for customers.

Announcements, Azure Maps, Internet of Things, Web

Published • 3 min read

Geospatial imagery unlocks new cloud computing scenarios on Azure 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure

In the year since Azure Space was announced, Microsoft has focused on extending its Azure Space ecosystem by partnering with industry leaders in the space community to empower customers and partners to achieve more. Today, Microsoft is expanding on its mission to make Azure Space the platform and ecosystem of choice for the space community through a new partnership with Airbus and the general availability of their premium satellite imagery and elevation data in Microsoft’s Azure Maps.

Announcements, Security

Published • 6 min read

Azure Government Top Secret now generally available for US national security missions 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Government Top Secret, a significant milestone in our commitment to bringing unmatched commercial innovation to our government customers across all data classifications. This announcement, together with new services and functionality in Azure Government Secret, provides further evidence of Microsoft’s relentless commitment to the mission of national security, enabling customers and partners to realize the vision of a multi-cloud strategy and achieve greater agility, interoperability, cost savings, and speed to innovation.

AI + Machine Learning, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Stack Edge, Hybrid + Multicloud, Thought leadership

Published • 3 min read

Ground processing with space data 5x faster with Azure 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure

Over the past year, Microsoft has teamed with Ball Aerospace to develop the prototype for the Commercially Augmented Space Inter Networked Operations (CASINO) Program Office demonstrating agile cloud processing capabilities in support of the United States Space Force. For increasingly distributed mission environments, Microsoft Azure delivers the processing power and analysis necessary for these large datasets.

Announcements, Serverless

Published • 2 min read

Connecting Azure to the International Space Station with Hewlett Packard Enterprise 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure

Today we are announcing our partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to connect Azure directly to space using HPE’s upcoming launch of its Spaceborne Computer-2 (SBC-2), which will deliver edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in space for the first time on the International Space Station (ISS).

Container Services, Containers, Hybrid + Multicloud, Microsoft Sentinel

Published • 5 min read

The broadest range of cloud innovation across US Government data classifications 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure Global, Microsoft Azure

Today, we are announcing the expansion of our mission-critical cloud for US Government with new capabilities in Azure Government, the expansion of Azure Government Secret, and the announcement of a new cloud to serve customers with top secret classified data—Azure Government Top Secret.