Tom Keane is the Corporate Vice President of Mission Engineering at Microsoft. He is responsible for developing the business and technology strategy for all aspects of the Mission Critical workload in the Azure Cloud. In his current role, he drives an innovation-based winning culture that maximizes customer satisfaction through engineering excellence and world-class service delivery. 

 

Before joining Microsoft, Tom was Chairman and CEO of Keane Inc., the parent company of WLAE-TV, one of New Orleans’ leading television stations. During his tenure at Keane Inc., he served as President and General Manager for the Fox affiliate station in Mobile, Alabama.

 

  1. Delivering Specialized Capabilities For Mission Needs

 

Software Developer Tom Keane

What does “Mission Critical” mean to you? The focus of Microsoft Azure is customer satisfaction. At the core, we want to deliver technologies that our customers need. When we can’t have those capabilities, we want to partner with trusted third parties who can extend those offerings. And Tom Keane is the one leading all these partnership projects. 

 

  1. Delivering Innovative Capabilities

 

Mission Engineering aims to deliver new and innovative capabilities in the mission-critical space. From a technology layer, we’re focused on providing new and compelling ways for our customers to engage with Azure beyond virtual machines and cloud services, Tom Keane informs. To this end, we are focused on developing modernized messaging, identity, and access management and providing cloud-based security platforms.

 

  1. Harnessing Data Anywhere For Learning Everywhere

One of the things we want to provide customers is access to data from anywhere. Once a customer has this capability, they can monitor, analyze and improve their operations, Tom Keane finally adds. With the network-based security capabilities we’re developing, customers will have increased control over where their data is stored and can secure it wherever it resides. We have recently added capabilities for Azure Government that will allow our government customers to store their data within the boundaries of their datacenter.