Meet grant-residency rules and stretch every dollar of funding.
Research institutions and non-profits on publicly funded work need a vendor that satisfies grant-residency and procurement requirements without draining the budget. ZCP supports those constraints, bills in CAD, and charges nothing for data transfer, so more of your funding reaches the work.
Residency that satisfies the grant
Many federal and provincial research grants require data residency in a specific jurisdiction. Choose the ZCP region that meets the requirement and have it enforced by the platform, so the condition is satisfied rather than merely asserted.
An ownership structure that clears review
ZSoftly Technologies Inc. is independently held with no foreign parent, which matters for grants and programs that screen vendors on ownership before funds can flow.
Collaborate without a transfer bill
Move data between collaborating institutions and research partners with no per-GB transfer charges. Data movement is free and unmetered, so sharing results never competes with the research budget.
Costs aligned to the funding cycle
Reserved pricing (15% off) lets you lock infrastructure cost to grant cycles and multi-year program budgets, so spending stays inside the envelope the funder approved.
Common workloads
Where organizations like yours put ZCP to work.
Research computing clusters
Spin up compute clusters for simulation, genomics, climate modeling, and data-intensive research on demand. Scale up to 48 vCPU / 96 GB RAM per instance without capital expense.
Data repositories and archives
Long-term research data archives on cost-effective HDD object storage. Meet open-data and tri-agency sharing requirements with S3-compatible APIs and no egress charges.
Collaboration platforms
Self-hosted collaboration tools, Nextcloud, Mattermost, JupyterHub, for distributed research teams. Region-controlled data with no foreign-vendor dependency.
Grant and program management
Administrative systems and databases for grant tracking, reporting, and compliance on dedicated VM instances with daily automated snapshots.
Open data portals
Public-facing data portals and APIs for open-data mandates. Elastic VM infrastructure with object storage for dataset distribution. Free egress for public access.
Non-profit IT infrastructure
Full cloud infrastructure for non-profits needing region-controlled data, procurement-friendly invoicing, and predictable CAD costs fitting within operating budgets.
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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