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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

### [What is Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)?](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/what-is-iaas-infrastructure-as-a-service)

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.

ZSoftly Team

2 min read

Engineering

May 16, 2026

### [What is Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS)?](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/what-is-maas-metal-as-a-service)

Metal-as-a-Service turns a rack of physical servers into an API-driven pool. Here is when bare-metal provisioning matters and how ZCP delivers it.

ZSoftly Team

2 min read

Engineering

May 16, 2026

### [What is Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)?](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/what-is-paas-platform-as-a-service)

PaaS abstracts the runtime so you ship code, not servers. Here is the NIST definition, the trade-offs, and how ZCP delivers managed Kubernetes and Observability.

ZSoftly Team

2 min read

Engineering

May 16, 2026

### [What is Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)?](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/what-is-saas-software-as-a-service)

A technical decision-maker guide to the SaaS layer: NIST SP 800-145, the CAPEX-to-OPEX shift, and how SaaS providers run on IaaS underneath.

ZSoftly Team

3 min read

Engineering

May 16, 2026

### [What is software-defined networking (SDN)?](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/what-is-software-defined-networking)

SDN separates the control plane from the data plane. A technical primer on the ONF definition, OpenFlow, and why cloud networking is impossible without it.

ZSoftly Team

3 min read

Engineering

May 16, 2026

### [What is sovereign cloud?](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/what-is-sovereign-cloud)

Sovereign cloud explained as a category, not a feature. Data residency, operational sovereignty, and corporate sovereignty, and why procurement now asks.

ZSoftly Team

3 min read