Microsoft Azure D48AS V4 Virtual Machines
Microsoft Azure D48AS V4 Virtual Machines provide scalable compute resources designed for demanding workloads, ensuring your business applications run efficiently.
- Scalable Compute: Access flexible virtual machine resources that can be adjusted to meet fluctuating business demands.
- Performance Optimized: Benefit from hardware designed for memory-intensive and compute-intensive workloads.
- Cost Efficiency: Pay only for the resources you consume with a subscription billing model.
- Global Availability: Deploy virtual machines in Microsoft's secure and reliable Azure data centers.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Microsoft Azure D48AS V4 Virtual Machines are cloud-based compute resources offering a powerful platform for running business applications. This specific configuration, the D48AS V4, is optimized for memory-intensive and compute-intensive workloads, providing significant processing power and memory capacity for demanding tasks.
These virtual machines are ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in small to mid-market companies looking to deploy or expand their IT infrastructure without the overhead of physical hardware. They fit into existing cloud strategies or serve as the foundation for new cloud-native applications, offering a pay-as-you-go model for predictable budgeting.
- High Memory Capacity: Equipped with substantial RAM to handle large datasets and complex in-memory operations.
- Powerful Processing: Features Intel Xeon processors designed for high-performance computing needs.
- Flexible Deployment: Easily provision and manage virtual machines through the Azure portal or APIs.
- Subscription Billing: Benefit from a predictable monthly subscription for operational expense budgeting.
- Azure Ecosystem Integration: Seamlessly connect with other Azure services for storage, networking, and security.
Empower your business with Azure D48AS V4 Virtual Machines, offering enterprise-grade performance and flexibility for growing organizations.
What This Enables
Deploying Memory-Intensive Applications
Enable teams to run large databases, in-memory analytics platforms, or complex simulation software. Streamline operations by providing dedicated, high-performance virtual machine instances for critical business functions.
cloud-first deployments, hybrid cloud environments, dedicated application hosting, virtual desktop infrastructure
High-Performance Computing Workloads
Automate complex scientific computations, financial modeling, or rendering tasks that require significant processing power and memory. Ensure timely completion of critical projects by provisioning resources on demand.
research and development, data analytics pipelines, engineering simulations, media rendering farms
Application Development and Testing
Streamline development workflows by providing consistent and powerful environments for coding, building, and testing applications. Enable teams to rapidly provision and tear down testing environments to accelerate release cycles.
agile development practices, DevOps pipelines, multi-environment testing, cloud-native development
Key Features
Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 2.3 GHz processors
Experience high-speed processing for demanding applications and complex calculations.
Up to 48 vCPUs
Scale your compute power to handle intensive workloads and concurrent user demands.
Up to 384 GiB RAM
Run memory-intensive applications and large databases efficiently without performance degradation.
Azure Premium SSD storage support
Achieve fast I/O performance for applications requiring rapid data access.
Subscription-based billing
Manage IT expenses with predictable operational costs and avoid large capital expenditures.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial services firms require high-performance computing for complex calculations, risk analysis, and real-time trading platforms, often with strict uptime and data integrity requirements.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers utilize high-performance virtual machines for running complex simulations, optimizing production processes, and managing large datasets for IoT and analytics.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations need robust compute power for medical imaging analysis, genomic sequencing, and managing large patient databases, often under strict regulatory compliance like HIPAA.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies often handle large document repositories, complex e-discovery processes, and client data requiring secure and scalable computing resources.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Microsoft Azure D48AS V4 Virtual Machine series?
The D48AS V4 series represents a generation of Azure Virtual Machines optimized for memory-intensive and compute-intensive workloads. They offer a balance of processing power, memory, and storage performance for demanding business applications.
What types of workloads are best suited for the D48AS V4 series?
This series is ideal for applications such as large relational database servers, in-memory caches, big data analytics, and high-performance computing tasks that require substantial RAM and CPU resources.
How does subscription billing work for these virtual machines?
Subscription billing means you pay a recurring fee, typically monthly, for the use of the virtual machine resources. This model allows for predictable operational expenses and avoids the large upfront costs associated with purchasing physical hardware.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
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.