Microsoft Dedicated Host DSv4 Series T1 - 3 Year Subscription
This 3-year Microsoft Dedicated Host DSv4 Series T1 subscription provides dedicated Azure infrastructure for your business-critical applications, ensuring enhanced security and performance.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Gain exclusive access to physical servers within Azure, isolating your workloads from other tenants for maximum security and control.
- Optimized Performance: Benefit from the latest generation Intel Xeon scalable processors and high-performance local SSD storage for demanding applications.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet stringent regulatory and compliance requirements by maintaining full control over your dedicated hardware environment.
- Cost Predictability: Lock in pricing for three years, enabling better budget management and protection against future price fluctuations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft Dedicated Host DSv4 Series T1 subscription provides a dedicated physical server within Azure, exclusively for your use. This offering ensures that your workloads run on hardware that is not shared with any other Azure customers, offering enhanced security, compliance, and performance predictability.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who require dedicated resources for sensitive applications, need to meet specific compliance mandates, or want to optimize performance for their own internal IT operations without the overhead of managing physical hardware.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your own physical server in Azure, providing isolation and control.
- High Performance: Powered by Intel Xeon scalable processors and local SSD storage.
- Compliance Ready: Facilitates adherence to strict data residency and regulatory requirements.
- Flexible Deployment: Supports Windows Server and Linux virtual machines.
- Predictable Costs: Three-year commitment offers stable pricing.
Secure dedicated Azure infrastructure with predictable costs, empowering your business to run critical applications with enterprise-grade performance and control.
What This Enables
Isolate Sensitive Workloads
Enable teams to run highly sensitive applications or data on dedicated physical servers within Azure. This isolation ensures that your workloads are not impacted by or impacting other tenants, providing a secure environment for critical business functions.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, regulatory compliance needs, internal application hosting
Meet Strict Compliance Mandates
Organizations deploying solutions that must adhere to stringent industry regulations or data residency requirements can utilize dedicated hosts. This provides the necessary control over the underlying hardware to satisfy auditors and compliance frameworks.
data sovereignty requirements, regulated industry operations, internal audit controls, secure data processing
Optimize Application Performance
Businesses migrating or running performance-sensitive applications benefit from dedicated resources that are not subject to noisy neighbor effects. This ensures consistent and predictable performance for your own internal users and operations.
high-performance computing, internal business applications, predictable workload performance, resource-intensive tasks
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Server
Provides complete isolation of your virtual machines from other Azure customers, enhancing security and control.
Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
Delivers high performance and efficiency for demanding workloads, ensuring your applications run smoothly.
Local SSD Storage
Offers fast, low-latency storage for applications that require rapid data access, improving overall responsiveness.
Azure Hybrid Benefit
Allows you to use your existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to pay a reduced rate on the host.
3-Year Term Commitment
Secures predictable pricing for three years, offering cost savings and budget stability for your Azure infrastructure.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security and isolation to protect sensitive customer data and comply with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hosts a suitable choice for their core banking and trading platforms.
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 electronic health record systems.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have stringent security mandates and data sovereignty requirements, making dedicated hosts essential for hosting classified information or citizen data securely and in compliance with government standards.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle highly confidential client information and must maintain strict data privacy, often requiring dedicated environments to meet client agreements and regulatory obligations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Microsoft Dedicated Host?
A Microsoft Dedicated Host is a physical server within Azure that is dedicated solely to your organization. This means your virtual machines are the only ones running on that specific hardware, providing enhanced isolation and control.
Who should use Dedicated Hosts?
Organizations with strict compliance requirements, those needing to isolate sensitive workloads, or businesses seeking predictable performance for their critical applications are ideal candidates for dedicated hosts.
How does this differ from standard Azure VMs?
Standard Azure VMs run on shared physical hardware, while Dedicated Hosts provide you with your own physical server. This offers greater control, security, and predictability, especially for compliance-sensitive or performance-critical workloads.
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.