Resources # Learn from the work we deliver every day. Guides, whitepapers, case studies and engineering articles from the cloud and DevOps projects we run for clients and the platform we operate ourselves. [Read the blog](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog) [Browse the guides](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/guides/) [announcements Why We Are Building ZCP Certification Oct 20, 2026](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/why-we-are-building-zcp-training-and-certification) [announcements ZCP Store: Buy Services and Licences From Your Console Oct 11, 2026](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-store-buy-services-and-licences-from-your-console) [engineering The Restart That Hid a Libvirt Bug Oct 11, 2026](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/the-restart-that-hid-a-libvirt-bug) articles 73 case studies 6 whitepapers 7 guides 12 Browse by type ## Pick what you need today - [### Blog Technical insights, best practices, and cloud industry trends 73 articles Explore](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog) - [### Case Studies Real-world success stories from our cloud migration and DevOps projects 6 case studies Explore](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/case-studies/) - [### Whitepapers Technical guides and roadmaps for cloud migrations and DevOps 7 whitepapers Explore](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/whitepapers/) - [### Guides Free technical guides on AWS, cloud migration, DevOps, security, and compliance 12 guides Explore](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/guides/) Long reads ## Whitepapers [See all 7 whitepapers](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/whitepapers/) - [10 pages · October 2026 ### Compute and Storage, Priced Separately Why every ZCP plan is now CPU and memory only, and how the root disk is sized and billed by the GB Pricing Compute Block Storage Root Disk Read the whitepaper](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/whitepapers/compute-storage-priced-separately/) - [10 pages · September 2026 ### Object Storage by Industry Six buying paths, the S3 workflows each one runs, and the questions to settle before moving data Object Storage S3 Object Lock AI Data Read the whitepaper](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/whitepapers/object-storage-by-industry/) - [10 pages · September 2026 ### Private Cloud on CloudStack and Ceph Architecture, change process, upgrades and monitoring for a two-region KVM cloud, with eight lessons from production Apache CloudStack Ceph KVM Ansible Read the whitepaper](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/resources/whitepapers/cloudstack-ceph-private-cloud/) From the blog ## Latest articles [See all 73 articles](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog) ![ZCP cover with a certificate, a badge and stacked level tiers, titled ZCP certification.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/why-we-are-building-zcp-training-and-certification.webp) Announcements October 20, 2026 ### [Why We Are Building ZCP Certification](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/why-we-are-building-zcp-training-and-certification) ZSoftly is launching ZCP certification in January 2027: four levels, free learning paths and labs, paid exams, and a learning platform built on Moodle with IOMAD. Ditah Kumbong 6 min read ![ZCP blog cover: The ZCP Store is open. Buy from your console.](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/zcp-store-buy-services-and-licences-from-your-console.webp) Announcements October 11, 2026 ### [ZCP Store: Buy Services and Licences From Your Console](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/zcp-store-buy-services-and-licences-from-your-console) The Store is a new tab in the ZCP console. Buy support, professional services, dedicated servers and licences there, and they bill on the same invoice as your instances. ZSoftly Team 5 min read ![ZCP branded engineering cover reading The restart that hid a bug, on a deep blue grid](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/images/blog/2026/the-restart-that-hid-a-libvirt-bug.webp) Engineering October 11, 2026 ### [The Restart That Hid a Libvirt Bug](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/blog/the-restart-that-hid-a-libvirt-bug) A seven-minute VM create, two wrong turns, a self-healing timer I built and then deleted, and the package update that fixed it. Ditah Kumbong 9 min read