Engineering
What is Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS)?
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.
Engineering
What is Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)?
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.
Engineering
What is Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)?
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.
Engineering
What is software-defined networking (SDN)?
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.
Engineering
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.
Engineering
How We Built ZCP: Proxmox, Ceph, and CloudStack
A look inside ZCP's infrastructure stack. Why we chose open-source components, how they fit together, and what it means for reliability and performance.