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.
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New accounts start with $100 in credit, valid 30 days, and can earn up to $300 total. Creating an account requires a minimum CA$1.00 payment for verification and validation, which is added as infra credit you can spend. No commitment. Or talk to our team about a private cloud build-out.
New accounts only · Offer ends Dec 31, 2026 · Terms apply · ZSoftly Technologies Inc., Ottawa ON