Microsoft Dedicated Hosts ESv4 Series T1
Secure dedicated server capacity with Microsoft Dedicated Hosts ESv4 Series T1, providing a full year of access to exclusive hardware resources for your critical applications.
- Dedicated Hardware: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, ensuring isolation and predictable performance for your workloads.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet stringent regulatory requirements by maintaining full control over your server environment and data residency.
- Performance Predictability: Eliminate the 'noisy neighbor' effect common in shared environments, guaranteeing consistent resource availability.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize spending by dedicating hardware resources, avoiding over-provisioning and managing licensing effectively.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft Dedicated Hosts ESv4 Series T1 subscription provides a one-year entitlement to dedicated physical server hardware within Microsoft Azure's East US region. It unlocks exclusive use of the server, ensuring that your workloads run in isolation, free from interference from other tenants. This offers enhanced security, predictable performance, and helps meet compliance mandates.
This offering is ideal for businesses, including IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, that require a controlled and consistent environment for their sensitive applications, databases, or virtualized infrastructure. It fits within Azure deployments where specific hardware isolation is a requirement for performance, security, or regulatory reasons.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Full control over the physical server for your exclusive use.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Isolate your workloads from other tenants for improved data protection.
- Predictable Performance: Consistent resource availability without the impact of shared infrastructure.
- Compliance Enablement: Facilitates adherence to industry regulations and data residency requirements.
- Flexible Deployment: Supports various Azure services and configurations on dedicated infrastructure.
This dedicated host solution empowers SMB and mid-market teams to achieve enterprise-grade control and performance without the overhead of managing physical data centers.
What This Enables
Enable Isolated Workloads for Sensitive Data
Enable teams to deploy applications and databases that handle sensitive customer or financial data in an isolated environment. This ensures that your data is not co-mingled with other tenants, providing an additional layer of security and control.
private cloud deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, regulatory compliance needs, virtual desktop infrastructure
Meet Strict Regulatory and Compliance Standards
Streamline adherence to industry-specific regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, or PCI DSS by utilizing dedicated hardware. This provides the necessary control and auditability required for compliance reporting and risk management.
data residency requirements, audit trail generation, security policy enforcement, controlled access environments
Guarantee Predictable Application Performance
Automate consistent resource allocation for mission-critical applications that demand stable and predictable performance. By eliminating the 'noisy neighbor' effect, you ensure your applications remain responsive under varying load conditions.
high-performance computing, mission-critical applications, real-time data processing, consistent user experience
Key Features
Exclusive Physical Server Access
Ensures your workloads run in isolation, free from the performance impact or security concerns of shared environments.
Azure Region Specificity (East US)
Allows for strategic placement of workloads to meet latency requirements and data residency mandates within a specific geographic area.
ESv4 Series Hardware
Provides access to modern Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processors, offering high performance for demanding workloads.
One-Year Subscription Term
Offers a defined period of dedicated resource access, simplifying budgeting and planning for critical infrastructure needs.
Microsoft Licensing Integration
Facilitates compliance and potential cost savings through Microsoft's licensing programs on dedicated hardware.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent data security, isolation, and compliance with regulations like PCI DSS, making dedicated hosts essential for protecting sensitive financial data and transactions.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA regulations, which mandate strict data privacy and security controls, often necessitating dedicated infrastructure to protect patient health information (PHI).
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client information and require robust security measures and data control to maintain client privilege and meet compliance standards.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have specific data sovereignty, security, and compliance requirements that are best met by dedicated, isolated hardware resources to ensure the integrity and security of public data.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host?
A dedicated host is a physical server with Azure dedicated host capabilities that is fully dedicated to running your organization's virtual machines. This provides isolation at the physical server level for security and compliance.
What are the benefits of using dedicated hosts?
Benefits include enhanced security through isolation, predictable performance, compliance with regulatory requirements, and the ability to use existing Microsoft server licenses with Software Assurance for license mobility.
Can I use my existing Microsoft licenses with dedicated hosts?
Yes, if you have Software Assurance for eligible licenses, you can bring them to Azure Dedicated Hosts through license mobility, potentially reducing your 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.