Microsoft Dedicated Hosts DSv4 Series T1 - 1 Year Subscription
Secure your critical workloads with Microsoft Dedicated Hosts DSv4 Series, offering dedicated physical servers for your exclusive use over a 1-year subscription term.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, ensuring isolation and enhanced security for your sensitive data and applications.
- Performance Assurance: Benefit from consistent and predictable performance without the noisy neighbor effect common in shared environments.
- Compliance Enablement: Meet stringent regulatory and compliance requirements by maintaining full control over your hosting environment.
- Cost Predictability: Lock in your infrastructure costs for one year with a subscription model, simplifying budgeting and financial planning.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a 1-year subscription for Microsoft Dedicated Hosts within the DSv4 series, specifically for the US East region. Dedicated Hosts allow you to license server software that runs on your dedicated physical servers, providing you with full control over the hardware and the ability to bring your own licenses.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who require dedicated infrastructure for their business-critical applications, such as databases, ERP systems, or virtual desktop infrastructure, ensuring performance, security, and compliance within their own IT environment.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your own dedicated physical servers within Microsoft Azure's global infrastructure.
- License Mobility: Bring your existing eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to run on dedicated hosts.
- Enhanced Security: Full control over hardware allocation and network configurations for maximum security posture.
- Regulatory Compliance: Facilitates adherence to industry-specific compliance standards and data residency requirements.
- Predictable Costs: A fixed 1-year subscription term provides budget certainty for your infrastructure investment.
Ensure your business-critical applications run on secure, dedicated infrastructure with predictable costs through this Microsoft Dedicated Host subscription.
What This Enables
Isolate Sensitive Workloads
Enable teams to run highly sensitive applications and data on dedicated physical servers, ensuring complete isolation from other tenants. This provides an enhanced security posture and meets strict data residency requirements.
On-premises data centers, private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, virtual desktop infrastructure
Meet Regulatory Compliance
Streamline adherence to industry regulations and compliance standards by maintaining direct control over the physical server environment. This ensures auditability and helps avoid penalties associated with non-compliance.
Financial services platforms, healthcare data management, government applications, regulated industry workloads
Optimize Licensing Costs
Automate the application of existing eligible server licenses, such as Windows Server and SQL Server with Software Assurance, to dedicated hardware. This maximizes the value of your current software investments and simplifies license management.
Existing Microsoft license holders, enterprise software deployments, hybrid licensing models, cost optimization initiatives
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Gain exclusive access to physical servers, ensuring enhanced security, performance isolation, and compliance control for your workloads.
Azure Infrastructure
Operate within Microsoft's global cloud infrastructure, benefiting from its reliability, scalability, and advanced security features.
License Mobility
Bring your own eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to run on dedicated hosts, optimizing your software investment.
DSv4 Series Hardware
Utilize modern, high-performance hardware optimized for a variety of compute-intensive workloads.
1-Year Subscription Term
Lock in your infrastructure costs for a full year, providing budget predictability and simplifying financial planning.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent data security and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, which are facilitated by dedicated, isolated infrastructure.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Protecting sensitive patient data (PHI) under HIPAA requires robust security and control over the hosting environment, making dedicated hosts a suitable choice.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle confidential client information and often have strict data privacy requirements, benefiting from the isolation and control of dedicated hardware.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial control systems and sensitive operational data require secure, reliable, and predictable performance, which dedicated hosts can provide.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Microsoft Dedicated Host?
A Microsoft Dedicated Host is a physical server dedicated to a single customer's use. It allows you to run your virtual machines on hardware that you exclusively control, providing enhanced security and compliance benefits.
What does the DSv4 series offer?
The DSv4 series offers a balance of compute and memory, utilizing Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processors. They are suitable for a wide range of workloads, including enterprise applications, databases, and development/test environments.
Can I bring my own licenses?
Yes, you can bring your eligible Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with active Software Assurance to run on Dedicated Hosts, potentially reducing your overall 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.