Engineering
One foundation, two products: the ZCP architecture
How ZCP delivers both a private cloud and a public cloud from the same underlying stack, with one layer separating the two delivery models.
Blog
From the ZCP team
Product announcements, engineering posts, tutorials, and stories from a Canadian-owned cloud platform.
Engineering
Public, private, hybrid: which cloud fits which workload?
A short, practical comparison of public, private, and hybrid cloud deployment models, with concrete guidance on when each fits.
Engineering
A sample Montreal cloud rack: the hardware, the cost, and the 5-10 year payback
A walkthrough of a four-server rack in a Montreal colocation delivering a full public or private cloud, with the OpEx / CapEx math against running the same workload on a hyperscaler.
Tutorials
VMware to Apache CloudStack: a step-by-step migration guide
A practical, step-by-step guide to moving VMware vSphere workloads to Apache CloudStack + KVM. What ZSoftly handles end to end and what is happening underneath.
Engineering
What is cloud computing?
A short primer on the NIST definition of cloud computing, the five essential characteristics, and why "cloud" does not mean "public cloud only".
Engineering
What is Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)?
IaaS is the raw compute, storage, and networking layer of cloud. Here is the NIST definition, the three pillars, and how ZCP delivers real IaaS.