Microsoft Dedicated Host ESv4 Series T1 Subscription
Access dedicated Microsoft Azure infrastructure with the ESv4 Series T1 subscription, providing secure and compliant compute resources for your business applications for one year.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, ensuring isolation and predictable performance for your sensitive workloads.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory requirements with dedicated hardware that provides enhanced security and data residency controls.
- Cost Predictability: Benefit from a fixed subscription cost for one year, simplifying budgeting and financial planning for your IT infrastructure.
- Performance Optimization: Run your most demanding applications with confidence, knowing you have dedicated resources free from noisy neighbor interference.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft Azure Dedicated Host ESv4 Series T1 subscription provides you with dedicated physical servers within Azure datacenters. It allows you to host your virtual machines on hardware that is exclusively yours, offering enhanced security, compliance, and performance predictability for your critical business applications.
This offering is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who need to run specific workloads that require dedicated hardware for compliance, security, or performance reasons. It integrates directly into your Azure environment, allowing you to manage your dedicated hosts and virtual machines using familiar Azure tools.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your virtual machines run on physical servers dedicated solely to your organization.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Isolate your workloads from other tenants for a more secure computing environment.
- Compliance Enablement: Facilitate adherence to strict regulatory requirements by controlling your hardware environment.
- Performance Consistency: Eliminate the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring stable and predictable performance for your applications.
- Azure Integration: Manage your dedicated hosts and associated virtual machines through the Azure portal and APIs.
Secure dedicated Azure compute resources with the ESv4 Series T1 subscription, offering a compliant and high-performance foundation for your business-critical applications.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Workload Isolation
Enable teams to deploy sensitive applications on hardware exclusively dedicated to their organization. This ensures data isolation and enhances security posture against potential multi-tenant risks.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, regulatory compliance needs, sensitive data processing
Meet Strict Compliance Requirements
Streamline adherence to industry-specific regulations and internal security policies by utilizing dedicated physical servers. This provides greater control over the underlying hardware environment for auditability.
data residency mandates, industry certifications, internal security audits, controlled IT environments
Guarantee Application Performance
Automate predictable performance for mission-critical applications by eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect. Dedicated resources ensure consistent compute, memory, and network throughput.
high-performance computing, critical business applications, predictable workload demands, latency-sensitive operations
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Provides exclusive access to hardware, ensuring data isolation and predictable performance for your virtual machines.
Azure Integration
Manage your dedicated hosts and virtual machines seamlessly through the familiar Azure portal and APIs.
Security and Compliance
Enhances your security posture and helps meet regulatory requirements through hardware isolation.
Performance Predictability
Eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect, guaranteeing consistent resource availability for your critical applications.
Subscription Term
Offers a fixed one-year term for predictable budgeting and simplified financial planning.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent data security and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hosts essential for protecting sensitive customer data and transaction information.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA and other privacy regulations, necessitating dedicated infrastructure to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of protected health information (PHI).
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have strict data sovereignty, security, and compliance mandates (e.g., FedRAMP requirements) that are best met with dedicated, controlled hardware environments.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle highly confidential client data and require secure, isolated environments to maintain client privilege and meet data protection standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host in Azure?
A dedicated host in Azure is a physical server that is entirely dedicated to your organization. It allows you to host your Azure virtual machines on hardware that is exclusively yours, providing enhanced security, compliance, and performance.
What are the benefits of using dedicated hosts?
Benefits include enhanced security through isolation, meeting compliance requirements by controlling hardware, and ensuring predictable performance by eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect common in multi-tenant environments.
Can I use my existing software licenses with dedicated hosts?
Yes, dedicated hosts can help you meet certain licensing requirements, such as Bring Your Own License (BYOL) scenarios, by providing dedicated hardware for your licensed software.
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.