Microsoft ESV4 Series Dedicated Host - ESV4 Type1
Access dedicated Microsoft Azure infrastructure with ESV4 Series Dedicated Hosts, ensuring predictable performance and isolation for your critical business applications in the US North Central region.
- Dedicated Infrastructure: Gain exclusive access to physical servers, providing enhanced security and performance isolation for your sensitive workloads.
- Predictable Performance: Ensure consistent application speed and reliability by eliminating the noisy neighbor effect common in shared environments.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet stringent regulatory and compliance requirements through dedicated hardware and isolated data environments.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimize spending by dedicating hardware resources, avoiding overprovisioning and managing costs effectively for your specific needs.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft ESV4 Series Dedicated Host is a subscription-based platform licensing service that provides dedicated physical servers within Microsoft Azure. This offering ensures that your workloads run on hardware exclusively assigned to your organization, offering superior isolation, security, and predictable performance compared to multi-tenant environments.
This service is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who require a controlled and compliant environment for their critical applications, databases, or legacy systems that may not be suitable for fully shared cloud infrastructure. It fits within an organization's cloud strategy by providing a dedicated foundation for specific high-demand or sensitive workloads.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Your organization has sole use of the physical server, guaranteeing performance and security.
- Enhanced Isolation: Protect sensitive data and applications from other tenants, crucial for compliance and security.
- Predictable Performance: Maintain consistent application response times and throughput without the variability of shared resources.
- Licensing Flexibility: Bring your own SQL Server or Windows Server licenses to the dedicated host for potential cost savings.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrate with other Azure services for a complete cloud solution.
Ensure your critical business applications have the dedicated, secure, and high-performance infrastructure they need with Microsoft ESV4 Series Dedicated Hosts.
What This Enables
Hosting Sensitive Financial Applications
Enable teams to run core financial applications and databases on dedicated hardware, ensuring strict data isolation and compliance with financial regulations. Streamline transaction processing with predictable, high-performance compute resources.
private cloud, hybrid cloud, on-premises migration, virtualized workloads
Migrating Legacy Business Systems
Organizations deploying or migrating legacy applications that require specific hardware configurations or licensing models can utilize dedicated hosts. Businesses managing critical systems that cannot be easily containerized or refactored benefit from a familiar, isolated environment.
application modernization, infrastructure consolidation, compliance-driven migration, virtual machine hosting
Ensuring Regulatory Compliance for Healthcare Data
Healthcare providers can ensure HIPAA compliance by hosting patient data and critical healthcare systems on dedicated, isolated infrastructure. Automate the deployment of compliant environments, reducing the risk of data breaches and audit failures.
data residency requirements, secure data storage, regulated workloads, virtual desktop infrastructure
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Guarantees exclusive use of hardware, providing enhanced security, isolation, and predictable performance for your applications.
Azure Infrastructure
Integrates seamlessly with the broader Azure ecosystem, allowing access to a wide range of managed services and tools.
Subscription Billing
Offers a predictable cost model for dedicated resources, allowing for better budget management and financial planning.
Host-Based Licensing
Allows you to bring your own eligible software licenses, such as SQL Server and Windows Server, potentially reducing overall costs.
Isolation and Security
Provides a secure environment by isolating your workloads from other tenants, crucial for meeting compliance and data protection requirements.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust security, data isolation, and predictable performance to meet strict regulatory compliance standards like PCI DSS and SOX for sensitive transaction and customer data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to HIPAA regulations, necessitating dedicated infrastructure for hosting Electronic Health Records (EHR) and other sensitive patient data to ensure privacy and security.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client information, demanding secure, isolated environments to maintain client privilege and comply with data protection mandates.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations often rely on critical, legacy systems or specialized software for production control and data analysis that benefit from dedicated, stable compute resources to ensure operational continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host?
A dedicated host is a physical server within Microsoft Azure that is dedicated solely to your organization. This means you have exclusive use of the server's resources, providing enhanced isolation, security, and predictable performance for your workloads.
What types of workloads are best suited for dedicated hosts?
Dedicated hosts are ideal for workloads that require strict isolation, predictable performance, or have specific licensing requirements. This includes sensitive applications, compliance-driven workloads, legacy systems, and high-demand applications.
How does dedicated hosting help with compliance?
By providing dedicated, isolated hardware, dedicated hosts help organizations meet stringent regulatory and compliance requirements, such as HIPAA or GDPR, by ensuring that sensitive data is not commingled with other tenants' data.
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.