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# From the ZCP team

Product announcements, engineering posts, tutorials, and stories from a Canadian-owned cloud platform.

## More posts

![ZCP announcement cover reading Intel Xeon Gold, live in Montreal](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/intel-cpu-compute-yul.webp)

Announcements

August 16, 2026

### [You Asked for Intel in Montréal. It Is Here.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/intel-cpu-compute-yul)

Intel Xeon Gold compute is live in YUL-1: general-purpose and memory-optimized plans, custom sizing, and Intel Xeon Kubernetes nodes, at the same list prices as equivalent AMD sizes.

Ditah Kumbong

1 min read

![Branded ZSoftly architecture graphic showing Ollama and Open WebUI on a 64 GB Intel VM in ZCP YUL-1](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/ollama-private-ai-zcp-yul.webp)

Engineering

August 16, 2026

### [What a Private AI Workload Taught Us About Compute, Cost, and Control](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/what-we-learned-running-ollama-on-zcp-intel-yul)

We tested Ollama and Open WebUI on a 64 GB Intel VM in ZCP YUL-1. Here is what decision-makers should know about private AI, model size, cost, speed, and deployment fit.

Ditah Kumbong

9 min read

![ZCP company cover reading A new mark for the developer cloud](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/a-new-mark-for-the-zcp-developer-cloud.webp)

Company

August 9, 2026

### [A New Mark for the ZCP Developer Cloud](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/a-new-mark-for-the-zcp-developer-cloud)

Why ZCP has a new visual mark for its developer-cloud direction, Canadian origin, and layered platform model.

Ditah Kumbong

2 min read

Announcements

August 5, 2026

### [Outbound SMTP Port 25 Is Blocked by Default on ZCP](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/outbound-smtp-port-25-blocked-by-default)

Outbound SMTP on port 25 is blocked by default on ZCP compute instances. Use an authenticated relay on port 465 or 587, or request an exception for a production mail server.

ZSoftly Team

2 min read

![Sanitized ZCP CMP dashboard showing projects, resource counts, cloud products, and the portal navigation](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/zcp-cmp-dashboard.png)

Company

July 30, 2026

### [Making Cloud Management Simpler on ZCP](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/making-cloud-management-simpler-on-zcp)

A walk through the ZCP portal: projects, instances, marketplace images, storage, firewall rules, DNS, and billing in one account, plus the product rules behind the experience.

ZSoftly Team

6 min read

![ZCP portal marketplace tab showing application images available during VM deployment](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/zcp-marketplace-apps.png)

Announcements

July 27, 2026

### [ZCP Marketplace Apps: 64 Preconfigured Images for Self-Hosted Software](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-marketplace-app-images)

ZCP now has 64 marketplace application images. Launch databases, DevOps tools, monitoring, VPN, CMS, business apps, and AI tools from the portal with first-boot setup documented for you.

ZSoftly Team

9 min read