Tom Keane is a software developer who is currently working for Microsoft. Before working for them, he managed to secure his place in the Microsoft Residency Programme and was eligible to work for the company. As a developer, Keane worked on several projects and published several articles.

Blogs by Tom Keane about Azure Global

Geospatial imagery unlocks new cloud computing scenarios on Azure: 

Microsoft has been working closely with industry leaders to develop a rich ecosystem of technologies enabling companies to extract the maximum value from the rapidly growing amount of online geospatial data.

Innovations come to national security in chip design:

Tom Keane recalls how in what may be a first for any company, Intel is working with the National Security Agency and its trusted partners to explore developing new technology.

This new technology is aimed to reduce the hardware cost of supercomputer architectures while maintaining their performance levels. This could open the door to the latest intelligence community and government agencies‘ applications. And Tom Keane is the leader in charge of this project. 

Speed Ground processing space data with Azure:

Microsoft’s new architecture allows processing on the ground, using satellites and telescopes, instead of on the spacecraft. According to NASA and Microsoft, processing in space has become much less expensive, thanks to advances in hardware and software.

Tom Keane on how Microsoft Azure is available from new cloud regions in Switzerland:

Microsoft Azure is now available from the Microsoft Cloud Region in Zurich, Switzerland. The region, which consists of two Azure Availability Zones, is the latest addition to the Microsoft Azure global platform. This new region allows companies to provision and deploy their applications using the Azure platform quickly.