Microsoft EDSV4 Series Dedicated Host
Access dedicated Microsoft Azure hosting capacity with the EDSV4 Series Dedicated Host license, ensuring predictable performance and isolation for your critical business applications.
- Dedicated Resources: Guarantees exclusive access to physical servers, preventing noisy neighbor issues and ensuring consistent performance for your workloads.
- Enhanced Security: Provides a physically isolated environment, crucial for meeting stringent compliance requirements and protecting sensitive business data.
- Cost Predictability: Offers a fixed cost for dedicated hardware, simplifying budgeting and avoiding unexpected spikes in cloud spend.
- Compliance Assurance: Facilitates adherence to regulatory mandates that require data isolation and specific hardware configurations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Microsoft EDSV4 Series Dedicated Host license provides your organization with exclusive access to dedicated physical servers within the Azure cloud infrastructure. This offering ensures that your applications run on hardware solely dedicated to your use, offering enhanced security, predictable performance, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
This license is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies who manage sensitive data, require strict performance guarantees, or need to meet specific regulatory compliance standards. It fits within your existing Azure environment, allowing you to maintain control over your dedicated hardware while benefiting from Azure's global reach and management capabilities.
- Exclusive Hardware Access: Guarantees that the physical server is not shared with any other Azure customer.
- Performance Isolation: Eliminates the 'noisy neighbor' effect, ensuring consistent and predictable application performance.
- Compliance Enablement: Supports regulatory needs for data segregation and dedicated infrastructure.
- Cost Management: Provides a stable cost for dedicated resources, aiding in predictable IT budgeting.
- Azure Integration: Seamlessly integrates with other Azure services for a unified cloud experience.
Secure dedicated Azure hosting without the overhead of managing physical infrastructure, perfect for businesses prioritizing performance and compliance.
What This Enables
Enable Secure Workload Isolation
Enable teams to deploy sensitive applications and data on physically isolated hardware, ensuring strict data privacy and security. This prevents cross-tenant interference and meets regulatory requirements for data segregation.
cloud hosting, virtual machine deployment, data-intensive applications, regulatory compliance
Guarantee Application Performance
Streamline application delivery by ensuring consistent and predictable performance, free from the impact of other tenants' workloads. This is critical for latency-sensitive applications and services requiring guaranteed uptime.
performance-critical applications, real-time data processing, business continuity planning, service level agreements
Meet Strict Compliance Mandates
Automate adherence to industry-specific regulations and data residency requirements that mandate dedicated infrastructure. This license provides the necessary physical isolation to pass audits and maintain compliance certifications.
regulated industries, data sovereignty, audit readiness, security best practices
Key Features
Dedicated Physical Servers
Eliminates performance variability and security risks associated with shared hardware.
Isolated Environment
Provides enhanced security and helps meet compliance requirements for data segregation.
Consistent Performance
Ensures applications run reliably without interference from other tenants.
Azure Integration
Seamlessly integrates with the broader Azure ecosystem for management and service utilization.
Subscription Billing
Offers predictable monthly costs for dedicated hardware, simplifying IT budget management.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require stringent data isolation and security to comply with regulations like PCI DSS and SOX, making dedicated hosts essential for protecting sensitive customer data and transaction information.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA and other privacy regulations, necessitating dedicated infrastructure to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of protected health information (PHI).
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle highly confidential client data and intellectual property, requiring dedicated resources to maintain client privilege and meet data security standards.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies often have strict security mandates and data sovereignty requirements that necessitate dedicated hardware to ensure the protection of sensitive citizen data and national security information.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a dedicated host in Azure?
A dedicated host in Azure is a physical server that is entirely dedicated to your use. This means that the hardware is not shared with any other Azure customer, providing enhanced security, isolation, and predictable performance for your virtual machines.
Who should use dedicated hosts?
Dedicated hosts are ideal for organizations with strict compliance requirements, those needing to meet data residency regulations, or businesses running performance-sensitive applications that cannot tolerate the variability of shared infrastructure.
How does this license differ from standard Azure VM instances?
Standard Azure VM instances run on shared physical hardware, while dedicated hosts provide you with exclusive access to the underlying physical server. This offers greater control, isolation, and predictability compared to shared environments.
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.