Microsoft Dedicated Host DASv4 Series
Secure dedicated server resources with Microsoft Dedicated Host DASv4 Series, providing enhanced isolation and control for your critical business workloads.
- Dedicated Resources: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, ensuring predictable performance and isolation for your applications.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet stringent regulatory requirements with dedicated hardware that provides a secure and isolated environment.
- Performance Predictability: Eliminate noisy neighbor issues and guarantee consistent application performance for your business-critical systems.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize your IT spend by dedicating hardware resources, avoiding the overhead of managing physical infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft Dedicated Host DASv4 Series offers dedicated physical servers within Azure, providing you with exclusive access to the host hardware. This ensures a higher level of isolation and control, crucial for meeting compliance mandates and performance guarantees for your most sensitive applications.
This offering is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who require dedicated infrastructure for their own operations. It fits within your existing Azure environment, allowing you to run your business applications on hardware you control without the complexity of managing physical data centers.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your dedicated host runs only your virtual machines, providing maximum isolation.
- Compliance Ready: Facilitates adherence to strict data residency and regulatory requirements.
- Performance Guarantees: Ensures consistent and predictable performance for your workloads.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrates with other Azure services for a unified cloud experience.
- Flexible Licensing: Supports Bring Your Own License (BYOL) options for Windows Server and SQL Server.
Empower your business with dedicated Azure infrastructure, offering enterprise-grade control and performance without the enterprise overhead.
What This Enables
Enhance Application Isolation and Security
Enable teams to run sensitive business applications on dedicated physical servers, ensuring maximum isolation from other tenants. This provides a secure environment that helps protect critical business data and intellectual property.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, regulated industry workloads, sensitive data hosting
Meet Strict Compliance and Regulatory Standards
Organizations deploying in regulated industries can leverage dedicated hardware to meet specific compliance mandates like HIPAA, GDPR, or PCI DSS. This ensures data residency and isolation requirements are satisfied for your business operations.
financial services operations, healthcare data management, government agency applications, compliance-driven IT environments
Guarantee Predictable Performance for Critical Workloads
Businesses migrating or hosting mission-critical applications can guarantee consistent performance by using dedicated hosts. This eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect common in shared environments, ensuring your applications perform as expected.
high-performance computing, business-critical application hosting, latency-sensitive workloads, predictable resource needs
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Server
Provides exclusive access to hardware, ensuring maximum isolation and security for your virtual machines.
Azure Integration
Seamlessly integrates with the Azure ecosystem, allowing for unified management and access to a wide range of cloud services.
Compliance Support
Helps meet stringent regulatory and data residency requirements by offering a dedicated and controlled environment.
Performance Predictability
Guarantees consistent and reliable performance for your business-critical applications, free from the impact of other tenants.
Flexible Licensing Options
Supports Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for Windows Server and SQL Server, enabling cost savings and license mobility.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require dedicated infrastructure to meet stringent security, compliance, and data residency regulations like PCI DSS and GDPR for sensitive customer data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to strict data privacy regulations such as HIPAA, necessitating isolated environments for patient health information (PHI) and predictable performance for critical systems.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have specific security mandates and data sovereignty requirements that are best met with dedicated, controlled hardware resources for sensitive operations.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle confidential client information and require secure, isolated environments to maintain client trust and meet professional ethical standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Dedicated Host?
A Dedicated Host is a physical server within Azure that is dedicated to a single customer. It provides exclusive access to the host hardware, ensuring isolation and control for your virtual machines.
How does this help with compliance?
Dedicated Hosts provide a secure and isolated environment that can help meet strict regulatory requirements, such as data residency and isolation mandates, for sensitive business data.
Can I use my existing licenses?
Yes, the DASv4 Series Dedicated Host supports Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for eligible Microsoft software like Windows Server and SQL Server, allowing you to optimize your licensing costs.
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.