Empowering Developers to Reach New Heights with Tom Keane, Corporate Vice-President of Azure Global.

Microsoft has made tremendous strides in augmenting software development capabilities with various tools and platforms for developers such as Tom Keane. With the focus shifting toward space exploration and discovery, Microsoft gives developers easy access to an innovative platform that provides space applications with powerful computing capabilities. 

This includes Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads based in the cloud and systems located at the edge environment of orbit. Tom Keane serves as Corporate Vice-President of Azure Global with this mission possible. Under the software developer and engineer´s guidance, Microsoft has teamed up with partners like HPE, Thales Alenia Space (TAS), Loft Orbital, and Ball Aerospace to reduce barriers to entry into space application development while increasing the agility and flexibility of solutions. 

For example, Microsoft, NASA, and HPE worked together on an AI vision application used by astronauts regarding their safety, where computer vision will detect damage to equipment based in the ISS. Tom Keane adds that it is then trained in the cloud before being deployed to an AI-enabled hardware platform at the orbit’s edge environment for local and remote analysis. 

Tom Keane also established a collaboration between Microsoft and Thales Alenia Space. This, to validate orbital compute technologies through Earth Observation Sensor analysis leading to real-time Earth surveillance data, which provides key insights into understanding climate change factors essential for sustainability. 

Moving forward, Tom Keane’s leadership continues as he spearheads efforts towards rapid data processing onboard satellites using cutting-edge reference architectures. This, on Azures Synapse and utilizing Blackshark geospatial models via Azures Orbital system – taking development even further beyond what had been seen before for enterprise-level software innovation.

Microsoft has made tremendous strides in augmenting software development capabilities with various tools and platforms for developers such as Tom Keane. With the focus shifting toward space exploration and discovery, Microsoft gives developers easy access to an innovative platform that provides space applications with powerful computing capabilities.    This includes Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads based…