Protect student data, hold your budget, and stay free of vendor lock-in.
School boards, universities, colleges, and EdTech platforms choose ZCP to keep student data in the region they select, hold their budget steady with CAD billing and no FX surprises at renewal, and stay free of vendor lock-in on an open foundation.
Student data stays where your policy requires
Data residency is enforced by the platform, not just promised in a contract. Student records and personal information stay in the jurisdiction your privacy framework demands, provincial, federal, or international, so the residency question is answered before an auditor ever asks.
A budget you can defend in CAD
Annual contracts billed in Canadian dollars with no exchange-rate exposure at renewal. Volume discounts at scale (20% off past 10 instances) and reserved pricing (15% off) for multi-year programs make the number you commit to the number you pay.
Independence, not lock-in
Run any open learning platform on an open foundation with no proprietary agents holding your environment hostage. If your needs change, your data and workloads leave with you. Your institution stays in control.
Capacity that follows the academic calendar
Add capacity for exam periods, registration surges, and semester starts, then release it when demand subsides. You pay for peak load only when you have it, with reserved pricing covering the steady baseline.
Common workloads
Where organizations like yours put ZCP to work.
Learning management systems
Host Moodle, Chamilo, or Open edX on dedicated VM instances with NVMe block storage. Scale horizontally during exam periods using on-demand compute alongside reserved baseline VMs.
Student information systems
Run Banner, Colleague, PowerSchool, or custom SIS databases on persistent NVMe block storage with automated daily snapshots and point-in-time restore.
Research and HPC computing
Deploy compute clusters for scientific research, genomics, climate modeling, and computationally intensive analysis. Burst to large instances (up to 48 vCPU / 96 GB RAM) on demand.
Video lecture storage and delivery
S3-compatible object storage for recorded lectures, course materials, and media assets at $0.024/GB/mo. Ingress and egress are free and unmetered, no per-student transfer charges.
Virtual desktop infrastructure
Lab environments and VDI for remote students on high-RAM VM instances. Students connect from any device; compute and licensed software run on dedicated ZCP infrastructure.
Administrative and ERP systems
Finance, HR, procurement, and scheduling systems on isolated VPC environments with dedicated private networking and firewall rules per system.
ZCP Object Storage
Object Storage for course materials and lecture archives
Universities, colleges, and school boards store course materials, recorded lectures, and project archives that grow every term. ZCP Object Storage keeps these files in the region you select behind a standard S3 API. Ingress and egress are free and unmetered.
Common S3 workflows
- Course materials and shared teaching files
- Recorded lecture files
- Student project archives
- Research data from faculty labs
- Backup copies of learning and administrative systems
Questions to settle before you move data
- Which privacy and retention policies apply to student and staff data?
- Which systems will read and write the files, such as your LMS or lecture capture tool?
- What accessibility requirements apply to published course content?
ZCP Object Storage is self-service and S3-compatible, in the region you choose. If you need dedicated hardware or root access, ZSoftly Cloud Storage is a dedicated, single-tenant cluster with object, block, and file storage.
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