Microsoft Dedicated Host DSv4 Series T1
This 3-year Microsoft Dedicated Host DSv4 Series T1 license provides dedicated physical servers for your exclusive use, ensuring maximum control and compliance for your critical applications.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, eliminating noisy neighbor issues and ensuring predictable performance.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet strict regulatory requirements by maintaining full control over your hardware environment.
- Performance Predictability: Avoid performance fluctuations common in shared environments, guaranteeing consistent application responsiveness.
- Cost Efficiency: Achieve enterprise-grade hosting without the overhead of managing your own physical data center.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a 3-year subscription for Microsoft Dedicated Host DSv4 Series T1, granting you exclusive use of physical servers within Microsoft's Azure infrastructure. This ensures a secure, compliant, and high-performance environment for your most demanding workloads, free from the performance impacts of shared resources.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this dedicated host solution fits within environments requiring strict data residency, enhanced security, or predictable performance for applications like databases, critical business systems, or virtual desktop infrastructure.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your own physical server for complete isolation and control.
- 3-Year Term Commitment: Lock in pricing and availability for predictable budgeting.
- DSv4 Series Performance: Benefit from Intel® Xeon® E5 v4 processors for demanding workloads.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrate with other Azure services for a complete cloud solution.
- Compliance Ready: Facilitates meeting stringent regulatory and data sovereignty requirements.
Secure dedicated hosting without the capital expenditure of owning hardware, perfect for growing businesses needing control and performance.
What This Enables
Enable High-Performance Application Hosting
Enable teams to deploy and run business-critical applications that demand consistent, high-performance computing resources. This ensures applications like ERP systems or large databases operate without performance degradation from shared infrastructure.
private cloud, hybrid cloud, virtualized environments, dedicated servers
Meet Strict Regulatory Compliance
Streamline efforts to meet stringent industry regulations and data sovereignty requirements by hosting sensitive data and applications on physically isolated hardware. This provides auditable control over your compute environment.
compliance-driven workloads, data residency requirements, secure environments, regulated industries
Isolate Sensitive Workloads
Automate the isolation of sensitive workloads, such as financial processing or patient data, from other tenants in a cloud environment. This enhances security posture and reduces the risk of data breaches.
security-sensitive applications, multi-tenant environments, risk mitigation strategies, data protection
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Ensures complete isolation of your workloads, eliminating performance interference from other tenants and enhancing security.
DSv4 Series Hardware
Provides access to powerful Intel Xeon processors optimized for demanding applications and high-performance computing needs.
3-Year Subscription Term
Offers predictable costs and guaranteed availability of dedicated hardware for long-term planning and budgeting.
Azure Integration
Allows seamless integration with the broader Azure ecosystem, enabling a unified cloud strategy for compute, storage, and networking.
Compliance and Security Controls
Facilitates meeting strict regulatory requirements and data sovereignty mandates through dedicated, auditable infrastructure.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require strict data isolation and predictable performance to meet stringent regulatory compliance standards like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hosts an ideal solution.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA regulations, which necessitate secure, isolated environments for patient data, aligning perfectly with the control offered by dedicated hosting.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly sensitive client data and often have strict confidentiality requirements, benefiting from the enhanced security and isolation of dedicated infrastructure.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers may run critical operational technology (OT) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that demand consistent performance and uptime, which dedicated hosts can reliably provide.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Microsoft Dedicated Host?
A Microsoft Dedicated Host is a physical server within Azure that is dedicated to a single customer. This means you have exclusive use of the physical server, providing enhanced security, compliance, and performance predictability.
What is the DSv4 Series?
The DSv4 series of Azure Dedicated Hosts are optimized for compute-intensive workloads, featuring Intel Xeon E5 v4 processors. They offer a balance of performance and cost for demanding applications.
How does this license ensure compliance?
By providing dedicated physical hardware, this license allows you to maintain full control over your environment, which is often a requirement for regulatory compliance in industries like finance or healthcare. You can ensure data residency and meet specific security mandates.
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.