Microsoft Azure Storage Premium SSD IOPS Add-on
This Microsoft Azure Storage license provides additional IOPS capacity, enabling enhanced performance for your premium SSD storage accounts and ensuring critical data access.
- Access to Increased IOPS: Gain entitlement to higher input/output operations per second for your Azure Premium SSD storage, boosting application performance.
- Enhanced Data Throughput: Coverage for improved data transfer rates, crucial for databases, transactional workloads, and high-performance computing scenarios.
- Optimized Application Performance: Protection against performance bottlenecks by ensuring sufficient IOPS are available for your business-critical applications.
- Compliance and Scalability: Entitlement to scale storage performance in line with regulatory requirements and business growth without service disruption.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This platform software license from Microsoft provides additional Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) capacity for Azure Storage Premium SSD accounts. It is designed to unlock higher performance tiers, ensuring that your storage can keep pace with demanding workloads and deliver consistent, rapid data access.
Businesses utilizing Azure for their core operations, including IT Managers overseeing cloud infrastructure, IT Professionals managing application performance, and Business Owners concerned with operational efficiency, will find this license essential. It integrates directly into existing Azure Storage deployments, augmenting the capabilities of Premium SSDs for mission-critical applications and data-intensive tasks.
- Increased IOPS Allocation: Secure additional IOPS beyond standard limits for Premium SSDs.
- Performance for Demanding Workloads: Essential for databases, transactional systems, and analytics platforms.
- Predictable Performance: Ensures consistent data access speeds for critical business applications.
- Scalable Cloud Storage: Allows for performance scaling as your business needs evolve.
- Azure Platform Integration: Seamlessly integrates with your existing Azure Storage infrastructure.
This Microsoft Azure Storage IOPS add-on is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams needing to guarantee high performance for their cloud-based data and applications.
What This Enables
Enable high-performance database operations
Enable teams to support high-transactional databases and critical business applications that require consistent, low-latency data access. Streamline operations by ensuring storage performance keeps pace with application demands.
cloud-native applications, virtualized environments, hybrid cloud deployments
Accelerate analytics and big data processing
Streamline the processing of large datasets and complex analytics queries by providing the necessary IOPS for rapid data ingestion and retrieval. Automate performance tuning for big data workloads, reducing manual intervention.
data warehousing, business intelligence platforms, machine learning workloads
Support demanding virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
Enable teams to deliver a responsive user experience for VDI environments by ensuring sufficient IOPS for boot storms and concurrent user activity. Automate the scaling of storage performance to meet fluctuating user demands.
remote work enablement, end-user computing, centralized application access
Key Features
Additional IOPS capacity
Provides the necessary throughput for demanding applications, preventing performance degradation.
Premium SSD optimization
Enhances the performance of Azure's fastest storage tier for critical workloads.
Subscription-based licensing
Offers a flexible and scalable way to manage storage performance costs.
Azure platform integration
Seamlessly integrates with existing Azure Storage accounts for easy deployment.
Predictable performance
Ensures consistent and reliable data access speeds for business-critical operations.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial services require high IOPS for real-time trading platforms, transaction processing, and risk analysis to meet strict performance SLAs and regulatory compliance.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need high IOPS for electronic health records (EHR) systems, medical imaging analysis, and patient data management to ensure rapid access and compliance with HIPAA.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers utilize high IOPS for real-time production monitoring, IoT data processing, and supply chain analytics to optimize operations and maintain efficiency.
Retail & Hospitality
Retailers and hospitality businesses benefit from high IOPS for point-of-sale systems, inventory management, and customer analytics to ensure smooth transactions and personalized experiences.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is IOPS and why is it important for Azure Storage?
IOPS stands for Input/Output Operations Per Second. It measures how many read and write operations your storage can perform in one second. For demanding applications like databases or analytics, high IOPS are crucial for fast data access and overall system responsiveness.
Does this license apply to all Azure Storage types?
This specific license, STRG_GPV2_STD_IO-PBW_ADDL_IO/10KOPS_USSC, is designed for Azure Storage Premium SSD accounts. It provides additional IOPS capacity specifically for this tier of storage.
How is this license billed?
This is a subscription-based license. Billing is recurring, typically on a monthly basis, based on the capacity and duration of the subscription for the additional IOPS.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.