Research & Non-profit Organizations
# 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.

ZCP Object Storage

## Object Storage for research data repositories

Research groups keep datasets they need to share with collaborators and preserve after a project ends. ZCP Object Storage gives them an S3-compatible store in the region they select, and data moves in and out with no transfer charges, so sharing results does not draw on the grant.

### Common S3 workflows

- Research data repositories and shared datasets
- Collaboration exports between institutions
- Open datasets published for public download
- Project archives kept after a grant closes
- Backup copies of lab and analysis systems

### Questions to settle before you move data

- Does your funder or ethics board set residency or retention conditions?
- Who outside your institution needs read or write access?
- How long must the data stay available after the project ends?

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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.

[Object Storage details](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/services/object-storage)

[Object Storage pricing](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/pricing#object-storage)

[ZSoftly Cloud Storage](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/services/cloud-storage)

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 [Volume Discounts 20% off 10+ VMs](https://zcp.zsoftly.ca/pricing#compute)

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