Microsoft RA-GRS Data Stored License
This Microsoft RA-GRS Data Stored license provides essential capacity for your business data storage needs, ensuring compliance and operational continuity.
- License Entitlement: Grants the right to store specified amounts of data within Microsoft's RA-GRS platform.
- Operational Continuity: Ensures your data storage solutions remain active and compliant with Microsoft's service agreements.
- Compliance Assurance: Supports regulatory and internal data retention policies by providing licensed storage capacity.
- Feature Access: Unlocks the necessary capacity to utilize the full capabilities of the RA-GRS data storage service.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft RA-GRS Data Stored license is a platform software subscription that grants your organization the entitlement to store data within Microsoft's Resilient Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) infrastructure. It ensures you have the licensed capacity required for your data, supporting business continuity and compliance objectives.
Businesses of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprise-level organizations, utilize this licensing to manage their data storage requirements. It fits into environments where data resilience, redundancy, and adherence to data governance policies are critical, such as for operational backups, archives, or disaster recovery solutions.
- Licensed Storage Capacity: Provides the authorized volume for data storage within RA-GRS.
- Platform Subscription: Billed on a recurring subscription basis for continuous service.
- Microsoft RA-GRS: Leverages Microsoft's geo-redundant storage for enhanced data durability.
- Compliance Support: Aids in meeting data residency and retention requirements.
- Operational Foundation: Essential for the ongoing function of data-dependent business processes.
This Microsoft license is the foundational element for businesses needing reliable, compliant data storage without the overhead of managing physical infrastructure.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Data Archiving
Enable teams to securely archive historical business data, ensuring long-term retention and compliance with industry regulations. This provides a reliable platform for meeting audit requirements and preserving critical business records.
cloud-native applications, hybrid cloud environments, data governance policies, regulatory compliance needs
Support Disaster Recovery Solutions
Streamline the implementation of disaster recovery strategies by providing licensed capacity for replicated data. This ensures business continuity by allowing for rapid data restoration in the event of a primary site failure.
business continuity planning, multi-region deployments, critical data protection, IT resilience strategies
Automate Backup Storage
Automate the storage of regular business backups to a geo-redundant platform, reducing the risk of data loss. This ensures that backup data is protected against local hardware failures and regional disasters.
scheduled backup processes, on-premises data protection, cloud backup integration, data redundancy requirements
Key Features
Microsoft RA-GRS Platform
Leverages Microsoft's geo-redundant storage for high data durability and availability, protecting against regional outages.
Subscription Billing
Provides predictable operational expenses with a recurring subscription model, simplifying budget management.
Licensed Data Capacity
Grants the official entitlement to store data, ensuring compliance and avoiding overage charges or service interruptions.
Geo-Redundancy
Ensures data is replicated across multiple geographic locations, offering protection against site-specific disasters.
Compliance Support
Helps organizations meet data residency, retention, and protection requirements mandated by various regulations.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust data storage solutions to meet stringent regulatory compliance, data retention policies, and disaster recovery needs for sensitive customer information.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to strict data privacy regulations like HIPAA, necessitating secure, durable, and compliant storage for electronic health records and patient data.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle highly confidential client data and must maintain long-term records for compliance and legal discovery, requiring reliable and secure storage.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers often need to store large volumes of operational data, sensor readings, and historical production records for analysis, quality control, and compliance, benefiting from geo-redundant storage.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft RA-GRS?
RA-GRS stands for Resilient Geo-Redundant Storage. It is a Microsoft Azure storage option that replicates data synchronously across two geographic locations within a primary region, and asynchronously to a secondary region, providing high durability and availability.
What does this license enable?
This license enables your organization to store data within the Microsoft RA-GRS platform. It grants you the legal right and capacity to utilize this service for your business data needs, supporting operations and compliance.
How is this licensed and billed?
This is a platform software license provided on a subscription basis. It is billed recurringly, typically monthly or annually, depending on the agreement, ensuring continuous access to the licensed storage capacity.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
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.