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Company: itopia, Miami, FL
Company Description: itopia builds cloud technology that makes hybrid work better. By enabling remote employees, software developers, and students to run popular desktop applications in a web browser, itopia removes the complexity and reduces the cost of delivering the cloud software, applications and infrastructure that people need to be productive and secure in a work-from-anywhere world.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Business Technology
Nomination Sub Category: Software Development Solution
 Nomination Title: itopia Spaces
- Which will you submit for your nomination in this category, a video of up to five (5) minutes in length about the nominated new or new-version product or service, OR written answers to the questions for this category? (Choose one):
Written answers to the questions
- If you are submitting a video of up to five (5) minutes in length, provide the URL of the nominated video here, OR attach it to your entry via the "Add Attachments, Videos, or Links to This Entry" link above, through which you may also upload a copy of your video.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this first question: If this is a brand-new product, state the date on which it was released. If this is a new version of an existing product, state the date on which the update was released:
Released on October 1, 2021
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this second question: Describe the features, functions, and benefits of the nominated product or service (up to 350 words):
Total 184 words used.
itopia Spaces is a fully-managed, ready-to-code cloud environment for software developers. Designed to enable distributed technology teams to work more productively and securely, itopia Spaces lets developers launch cloud workspaces in a browser – preconfigured with all dependencies – while companies actively prevent code exfiltration with precise and configurable security controls.
Spaces provides a modern software development environment that better aligns with how developers want to work. 74% of developers said they want to continue working remotely, even after the pandemic. With Spaces, instead of spending days setting up and maintaining multiple environments and struggling with hardware compatibility, developers simply choose their IDE and start writing code in the cloud in seconds.
The solution is based on Selkies, the open-source, cloud-native streaming platform created in partnership with Google. itopia provides Spaces as a fully-managed service to enterprises, startups, and global system integrators to make secure coding a more flexible and engaging experience.
Customers using Spaces are shipping products faster in the new normal of hybrid work, with quick developer onboarding, multiple development environments accessible in seconds, and developers coding from anywhere on any device.
- If you are providing written answers for your submission, you must provide an answer to this third question: Outline the market performance, critical reception, and customer satisfaction with the product or service to date. State monetary or unit sales figures to date, if possible, and how they compare to expectations or past performance. Provide links to laudatory product or service reviews. Include some customer testimonials, if applicable (up to 350 words):
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Launch customers for itopia Spaces include Neustar, a TransUnion company and leader in identity resolution, and 8base, a low-code platform for JavaScript developers. Neustar and 8base have deployed itopia Spaces across hundreds of software developers around the globe.
Albert Santalo, CEO of 8base [REDACTED FOR PUBLICATION]: “We have software developers around the globe. Improving their productivity while protecting the security of our code base in today’s hybrid work environment is crucial to us. itopia Spaces helps us ship products faster and more securely, without disrupting our existing developer workflows.”
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The product has received strong support from Google Cloud, with Manvinder Singh, Director, Partnerships, Google Cloud, [REDACTED FOR PUBLICATION]: “The rise of today’s hybrid work environment has many organizations reevaluating the approach to remote developer work. We’re pleased to have itopia Spaces available on Google Cloud Marketplace to help customers and their developer teams securely create and launch new products - regardless of where they may be working from.”
Additionally, itopia Spaces has been accepted as a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation. Joining the CNCF illustrates itopia’s deepening connection to the cloud computing community, and the Kubernetes and open-source ecosystems, serving as a strong endorsement of itopia’s vision to simplify hybrid work for software teams.
Priyanka Sharma, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation [REDACTED FOR PUBLICATION]: "As software organizations have increasingly distributed workforces, it is necessary to onboard remote developers quickly and ensure they have everything they need to be productive from any location. We are thrilled to have itopia as a member of the CNCF and look forward to the contributions they will make to the ecosystem."
- You have the option to answer this final question: Reference any attachments of supporting materials throughout this nomination and how they provide evidence of the claims you have made in this nomination (up to 250 words):
Total 175 words used.
A description of each supporting attachment is below:
1) itopia Spaces Product Website - microsite explaining the product and its benefits to developers and companies
2) itopia_Spaces___Datasheet.pdf - customer datasheet describing the product and its benefits
3) What can you do with a cloud developer workspace? - explainer video on the product
4) 118_CNC_itopia.mp3 - Cloud N Clear podcast interview with Dan Isla, VP of Product and architect of itopia Spaces
5) itopia Spaces in Google Cloud Marketplace - listing for itopia Spaces in the Google Cloud Marketplace, showing Google approval and support of the product and providing it distribution
6) Article on The New Stack on the Broader Context and Inspiration Behind itopia Spaces - article written by Jan Van Bruggen itopia's Developer Relations Lead on the role Spaces plays in the broader "stuff as code" practice. The New Stack is read by 650K+ developers and software architects each month.
7) itopia Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) - press release announcing itopia Spaces as a new member of the CNCF
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