Microsoft MS SERIES DEDICATED HOST - MSM TYPE1
Gain access to Microsoft's dedicated host infrastructure with the MS SERIES DEDICATED HOST license, ensuring your critical applications run on compliant and secure hardware.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory adherence by running workloads on dedicated, Microsoft-managed infrastructure.
- Feature Access: Unlock the full capabilities of Microsoft's platform, ensuring optimal performance and access to the latest features.
- Operational Continuity: Guarantee uninterrupted service for your business-critical applications through dedicated hardware resources.
- Cost Predictability: Benefit from a subscription billing model for predictable IT expenditure on essential infrastructure.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft MS SERIES DEDICATED HOST license provides subscription-based access to dedicated physical servers within Microsoft's US South Central data center region. It enables your organization to run specific Microsoft workloads directly on this dedicated hardware, ensuring isolation, compliance, and consistent performance for your business-critical applications.
Designed for businesses that require direct control over their underlying hardware environment without the overhead of managing physical infrastructure, this license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies. It integrates into existing Microsoft-centric IT environments, providing a foundational layer for essential business operations.
- Dedicated Physical Servers: Run your workloads on hardware exclusively allocated to your organization.
- Subscription Licensing: Predictable monthly billing for continuous access to dedicated host resources.
- US South Central Region: Deploy your services in a geographically specific Microsoft data center for latency and compliance needs.
- Platform Capabilities: Access the full suite of features and performance optimizations offered by the Microsoft platform.
- Compliance and Security: Meet stringent regulatory requirements and enhance security posture with dedicated, managed infrastructure.
This dedicated host license offers SMB and mid-market teams a compliant and performant way to run critical applications on Microsoft infrastructure.
What This Enables
Enable Dedicated Workload Isolation
Enable teams to run sensitive or performance-critical applications on isolated physical servers, ensuring no impact from other tenants. This provides a secure and predictable environment for your most important business functions.
dedicated server environments, compliance-driven deployments, performance-sensitive applications, private cloud strategy
Streamline Application Performance
Streamline the deployment and operation of applications that require consistent, high-performance hardware resources. This ensures your business-critical software operates at optimal speed and reliability.
high-transaction systems, resource-intensive applications, predictable performance needs, business continuity planning
Automate Compliance and Licensing
Automate the process of meeting licensing requirements and regulatory compliance by utilizing dedicated, Microsoft-managed infrastructure. This simplifies audits and ensures adherence to industry standards.
regulated industries, data residency requirements, audit-ready environments, secure data processing
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Ensures your workloads run in an isolated environment, free from the performance impact of other tenants, enhancing security and predictability.
Subscription Billing
Provides predictable monthly costs for dedicated hardware, allowing for better budget management and avoiding large upfront capital investments.
Microsoft US South Central Region
Allows deployment within a specific geographic region to meet data residency requirements and optimize latency for end-users in that area.
Platform Feature Access
Grants access to the full range of features and capabilities of the Microsoft platform, ensuring your applications can utilize the latest advancements.
Compliance and Security
Helps meet stringent regulatory requirements and maintain a strong security posture by operating on dedicated, Microsoft-managed infrastructure.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require dedicated infrastructure to meet stringent regulatory compliance, data security mandates, and high-performance demands for transaction processing.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must adhere to strict data privacy regulations like HIPAA, necessitating dedicated and secure environments for patient data and critical medical applications.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle sensitive client data and require secure, compliant, and reliable infrastructure to maintain client confidentiality and operational continuity.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Industrial operations often rely on dedicated servers for real-time control systems and sensitive intellectual property, demanding consistent performance and robust security.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host license?
A dedicated host license allows your organization to use physical servers exclusively for your workloads within a cloud provider's data center. This ensures isolation, compliance, and predictable performance for your applications.
What does 'MSM TYPE1' refer to?
MSM TYPE1 likely refers to a specific generation or configuration of dedicated host hardware offered by Microsoft. This designation helps identify the underlying physical server specifications.
How does subscription billing work for this license?
Subscription billing means you pay a recurring fee, typically monthly, for the use of the dedicated host resources. This shifts costs from capital expenditure to operational expenditure.
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.