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# From the ZCP team

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

## More posts

Engineering

May 16, 2026

### [Object, block, and file storage: which one to use?](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/object-block-file-storage-compared)

A practical primer on object, block, and file storage. What each one is, when to pick which, and how the categories map to ZCP pricing in 2026.

ZSoftly Team

3 min read

Engineering

May 16, 2026

### [One foundation, two products: the ZCP architecture](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/one-foundation-two-products)

How ZCP delivers both a private cloud and a public cloud from the same underlying stack, with one layer separating the two delivery models.

ZSoftly Team

4 min read

Engineering

May 16, 2026

### [Public, private, hybrid: which cloud fits which workload?](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/public-private-hybrid-cloud)

A short, practical comparison of public, private, and hybrid cloud deployment models, with concrete guidance on when each fits.

ZSoftly Team

3 min read

![Illustration of a sample 42U cloud rack: two 1U management nodes, two 2U hypervisor nodes with Ceph storage, a Juniper QFX5100 Virtual Chassis switch pair, an IPMI switch, and a PDU, with labeled callouts.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/sample-cloud-rack.svg)

Engineering

May 16, 2026

### [A sample Montreal cloud rack: the hardware, the cost, and the 5-10 year payback](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/sample-cloud-rack-montreal)

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.

ZSoftly Team

14 min read

Tutorials

May 16, 2026

### [VMware to Apache CloudStack: a step-by-step migration guide](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/vmware-to-cloudstack-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.

ZSoftly Team

9 min read

Engineering

May 16, 2026

### [What is cloud computing?](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/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".

ZSoftly Team

3 min read