Microsoft MDSv2 Series Dedicated Host - Medium Memory Type 1
Secure dedicated Microsoft Azure infrastructure with the MDSv2 Series Medium Memory Type 1 Dedicated Host, ensuring consistent performance and compliance for your critical business applications.
- Dedicated Hardware: Access to a physical server exclusively for your use, enhancing security and performance predictability.
- Compliance Assurance: Meet regulatory requirements by maintaining full control over your hardware environment and data residency.
- Performance Consistency: Benefit from predictable performance for your most demanding workloads, free from noisy neighbor issues.
- Cost Efficiency: Achieve enterprise-grade IT without the overhead of managing your own physical data center infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft MDSv2 Series Dedicated Host, specifically the MDSMV2MEDMEM TYPE1 model in US West, provides dedicated physical servers within the Azure cloud. This offering ensures that your organization has exclusive access to the underlying hardware, offering enhanced security, predictable performance, and greater control over your environment.
This solution is ideal for businesses that require dedicated infrastructure for compliance, performance-sensitive applications, or specific licensing needs. It allows IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies to deploy critical workloads on hardware they control, without the capital expenditure and operational burden of owning and managing physical servers in their own facilities.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Guarantees a physical server dedicated solely to your organization's workloads.
- Enhanced Security Posture: Isolates your environment from other tenants, reducing the attack surface.
- Predictable Performance: Eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring consistent application response times.
- Licensing Flexibility: Supports bring-your-own-license scenarios for certain Microsoft software.
- Compliance Adherence: Facilitates meeting strict regulatory and data residency requirements.
This dedicated host solution offers SMB and mid-market teams enterprise-level control and performance without the associated capital investment and management complexity.
What This Enables
Enable Dedicated Cloud Environments
Enable teams to deploy sensitive applications and data on exclusive physical hardware within Azure. Streamline compliance efforts by maintaining full control over the underlying infrastructure and data residency.
cloud-native deployments, hybrid cloud strategies, virtualized workloads, compliance-driven IT
Ensure Predictable Application Performance
Automate the allocation of dedicated resources to prevent performance degradation caused by shared infrastructure. Support business-critical applications with consistent and reliable compute capacity.
performance-sensitive applications, high-transaction systems, virtual desktop infrastructure, mission-critical services
Meet Strict Regulatory Compliance
Facilitate adherence to industry-specific regulations and data sovereignty requirements through dedicated hardware isolation. Protect sensitive data by ensuring it resides on infrastructure exclusively managed by your organization.
regulated industries, data privacy mandates, secure data handling, audit-ready environments
Key Features
Exclusive Physical Server Access
Ensures your workloads run on hardware dedicated solely to your organization, eliminating 'noisy neighbor' performance impacts and enhancing security.
Azure Cloud Integration
Provides the benefits of dedicated hardware within the scalable and managed environment of Microsoft Azure.
Medium Memory Configuration
Offers a balanced memory footprint suitable for a wide range of demanding applications and workloads.
Subscription Billing
Allows for predictable operational expenses with a recurring subscription model, avoiding large upfront capital outlays.
US West Region Availability
Ensures data residency and low latency for organizations operating within or serving the western United States.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent security, data isolation, and predictable performance to meet regulatory compliance like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hosts essential for sensitive workloads.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and other data privacy regulations, necessitating dedicated infrastructure to protect patient health information (PHI) and ensure data integrity.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services handle highly confidential client data and often have strict data residency requirements, benefiting from the enhanced security and control of dedicated hosts.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations may run specialized software or control systems that require consistent, predictable performance and dedicated resources to avoid disruptions in production or critical processes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host?
A dedicated host is a physical server that is entirely dedicated to a single customer. This provides greater isolation, security, and control compared to shared cloud infrastructure.
Who is this product for?
This product is for businesses, particularly SMBs and mid-market companies, that require dedicated hardware for compliance, performance, or licensing reasons. It is not for other service providers.
How does this differ from standard virtual machines?
Standard virtual machines run on shared physical hardware, while a dedicated host provides you with your own physical server, offering enhanced predictability and control.
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.