Microsoft Dedicated Host DSv4 Series Subscription
Gain exclusive access to dedicated Azure infrastructure with the Microsoft Dedicated Host DSv4 Series subscription, ensuring predictable performance and enhanced security for your critical workloads.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Secure your own physical servers within Azure, isolating your workloads from other tenants for maximum privacy and control.
- Predictable Performance: Benefit from consistent compute resources, eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect and ensuring your applications run reliably.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet stringent regulatory and compliance requirements by maintaining full control over your dedicated hardware environment.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize spending by dedicating hardware to your specific needs, potentially reducing overall cloud infrastructure costs compared to shared environments.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft Dedicated Host DSv4 Series subscription provides businesses with exclusive access to dedicated physical servers within the Azure cloud. This offering allows organizations to run their virtual machines on hardware that is solely dedicated to their use, offering enhanced security, compliance, and predictable performance.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who require greater control over their infrastructure, need to meet specific compliance mandates, or want to ensure consistent performance for their business-critical applications. It integrates directly into the Azure ecosystem, allowing for familiar management and deployment practices.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Utilize physical servers exclusively for your virtual machines, enhancing security and data isolation.
- Performance Consistency: Avoid performance fluctuations caused by other tenants sharing the same physical hardware.
- Compliance Enablement: Facilitate adherence to industry regulations and internal security policies by controlling the underlying hardware.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly deploy and manage dedicated hosts within your existing Azure environment.
- Flexible Subscription: Benefit from a monthly billing model for predictable operational expenses.
Secure dedicated Azure infrastructure for your business needs, offering control, performance, and compliance without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Enables
Isolate Sensitive Workloads
Enable teams to run highly sensitive applications and data on dedicated physical servers, ensuring isolation from other tenants. This provides an additional layer of security and privacy for confidential business operations.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, regulatory compliance needs, data sovereignty requirements
Meet Strict Compliance Mandates
Organizations deploying applications subject to stringent industry regulations can utilize dedicated hardware to meet specific compliance standards. This ensures that your infrastructure adheres to requirements for data segregation and control.
regulated industries, audit-sensitive environments, data residency controls, security-focused deployments
Guarantee Application Performance
Businesses migrating or hosting performance-sensitive applications can ensure consistent and predictable resource availability. Dedicated hosts eliminate the 'noisy neighbor' effect, guaranteeing that your workloads receive dedicated compute power.
high-performance computing, mission-critical applications, predictable workload demands, resource-intensive services
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides exclusive use of physical hardware within Azure, enhancing security and data isolation for your virtual machines.
DSv4 Series Hardware
Leverages modern Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processors, offering a balance of performance and cost-effectiveness for a wide range of workloads.
Monthly Subscription Billing
Offers predictable operational expenses with a flexible monthly payment model, simplifying budgeting for IT infrastructure.
Azure Integration
Seamlessly integrates with Azure services, allowing for familiar management, deployment, and monitoring tools.
Compliance Support
Helps organizations meet regulatory and internal compliance requirements by providing dedicated, controlled hardware environments.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent data security, isolation, and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hardware essential for sensitive financial data and transactions.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to strict data privacy regulations such as HIPAA, necessitating dedicated infrastructure to ensure patient data confidentiality and secure handling of medical records.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client information, requiring dedicated environments to maintain client privilege and meet data security standards for sensitive case files.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have specific mandates for data residency, security, and control over their IT infrastructure, making dedicated hosts a suitable option for sensitive government workloads.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Dedicated Host?
A Dedicated Host is a physical server within Azure that is dedicated solely to your use. It allows you to run your Azure virtual machines on hardware that is not shared with other customers, providing enhanced security and compliance.
What are the benefits of the DSv4 Series?
The DSv4-series VMs are optimized for performance and cost, featuring Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processors. They offer a strong balance for general-purpose workloads, including web servers, small to medium databases, and development/test environments.
How does the monthly subscription work?
The monthly subscription provides access to the dedicated host hardware for the duration of the term. Billing is processed on a recurring monthly basis, offering a predictable operational expense for your dedicated infrastructure.
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.