A walkthrough of a four-server rack in a Montreal colocation delivering a full public or private cloud, with the OpEx / CapEx math against running the same workload on a hyperscaler.
A short primer on the NIST definition of cloud computing, the five essential characteristics, and why "cloud" does not mean "public cloud only".
IaaS is the raw compute, storage, and networking layer of cloud. Here is the NIST definition, the three pillars, and how ZCP delivers real IaaS.
Metal-as-a-Service turns a rack of physical servers into an API-driven pool. Here is when bare-metal provisioning matters and how ZCP delivers it.
PaaS abstracts the runtime so you ship code, not servers. Here is the NIST definition, the trade-offs, and how ZCP delivers managed Kubernetes and Observability.
A technical decision-maker guide to the SaaS layer: NIST SP 800-145, the CAPEX-to-OPEX shift, and how SaaS providers run on IaaS underneath.
