Microsoft Events presents insights on how businesses benefit from Arm-based Azure Cobalt 100 VMs, featuring customer stories and technical highlights for developers and IT pros.

Cloud Innovation and Efficiency with Arm-Based Azure Cobalt 100 VMs

Session from Microsoft Ignite 2025 Speaker: Sameer Nori

Overview

Learn how enterprises unlock increased performance, efficiency, and scalability using Azure Cobalt 100 Arm-based virtual machines (VMs). The session highlights customer adoption examples, technical deep dives, and guidance for migrating and modernizing workloads on Arm-powered Azure infrastructure.

Why Developers Choose Arm

  • Performance, maturity, and efficiency are cited as top reasons for adopting Arm-based VMs on Azure.

Software Collaboration

  • Integration with GitHub runners for CI/CD
  • Windows performance optimizations for development and testing on Arm
  • Methods to optimize software for Arm platforms

Workload Performance

Detailed benchmarks and technical results for workloads including:

  • NGINX
  • Redis
  • Postgres
  • SPECjbb

Performance gains are highlighted for typical cloud applications deployed on Arm infrastructure.

Partner Highlights

  • One Trust deployment and use cases with Cobalt 100 VMs in Azure
  • Insights on adoption, outcomes, and optimization strategies

AI and Data Workload Integration

  • Databricks integrates Cobalt 100 VMs for scalable AI and data workloads
  • Demonstrates how Arm-powered infrastructure accelerates machine learning and analytics tasks

Migration and Modernization Resources

Future Outlook

  • AI integration using new MCP server platforms
  • Next steps for adopting Arm in Microsoft cloud environments

For further learning and on-demand sessions, visit Microsoft Ignite.

Speaker

  • Sameer Nori

Key Topics

  • Azure cloud performance
  • Arm-based VM deployment
  • Software optimization
  • Customer and partner success stories
  • AI workload acceleration
  • Modernization and migration strategies