Azure Global Corporate Vice President Tom Keane
Tom Keane is a Global Leader in Microsoft’s Cloud Product and Services business. In this role, he manages a team responsible for strategic direction, product management and marketing for Microsoft’s cloud-based services that are delivered via Azure. Tom joined Microsoft as a program manager on the Windows NT platform.
Here, he remained until he pursued the opportunity to form one of the first teams dedicated to designing and building software infrastructure in what was then called the “web hosting space.” Tom Keane´s team was responsible for some of the earliest platforms that enabled Microsoft to deliver web hosting services as a core of its vendor business.
A time of unprecedented transformation in the computing landscape has brought to life a new frontier – the Cloud, as TomKeane explains. Last year, Microsoft unveiled the Azure Computer Services Platform, which offers massive scalability and capability in the Cloud. Having seen businesses’ blazing development and utilization of technologies over time, Tom Keane informs, Microsoft is now accelerating its progress on one of the most critical space technologies- satellite communications.
The idea behind developing this technology is to provide much higher bandwidths and reliability for organizations using the Cloud to experience the benefits. Compared to the evolution of computing since its inception, we’re witnessing a rate of change that is unprecedented. The digital era has caused an exponential increase in complexity and volume. Tom Keane has led technical teams and software development in platforms that ran millions of customer websites and applications, including MSNBC, Expedia, T-Mobile, and MTV.