Arun Kishan is a Technical Fellow, Corporate Vice President, and General Manager of Azure Compute at Microsoft, where he leads the strategy, engineering, and execution of Azure’s global compute platform. In this role, he oversees the development of core cloud infrastructure, including virtual machines, host systems, and custom silicon–enabled solutions that improve performance, scalability, and energy efficiency for customers worldwide. With more than 20 years of experience in large-scale distributed systems and software engineering, Arun has held progressively senior technical and leadership roles at Microsoft, contributing to foundational advances in cloud architecture and platform reliability. He is recognized for combining deep hands-on technical expertise with executive leadership to deliver secure, high-performance cloud services at hyperscale.
Recent Videos
Inside Azure's Compute Strategy: How Cobalt 200 Builds on Early Momentum
Nobody predicted that agents would be the thing that brought CPUs back to the center of the infrastructure conversation. Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman sit down with Mark Russinovich and Arun Kishan from Microsoft Azure to break down Cobalt 200, Azure's open-source infrastructure strategy, and what the next phase of enterprise cloud compute actually looks like.
Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 VMs Momentum and Adoption - Six Five On The Road
Brendan Burns and Arun Kishan of Microsoft join hosts to discuss the momentum and adoption of Azure Cobalt 100 VMs, sharing insights on migration, performance, and how these custom Arm-based VMs are shaping the future of cloud-native workloads.
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