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BlockSpaces, Inc.
Contact: Rosa Shores
Phone: 727-483-3563
Email: rosa@blockspaces.io
BlockSpaces Announces Key Changes
BlockSpaces outlines a new operating model, management team and a seed round of capital.
TAMPA, FLORIDA, June 22, 2020 — BlockSpaces, Inc., today announced key leadership additions to their team, including the election of Gregory Pierce as Operating Chairman of Board.With expertise in cloud trends, systems integration, security, scale computing and emerging technology strategies, Pierce was the co-founder and Chief Cloud Officer of Concerto Cloud Services, an affiliate company of Microsoft Dynamics 365 integrator, Tribridge, and helped lead their strategic acquisition to IT services company DXC Technology, in 2017. In that capacity, he led the development of the Concerto Private Cloud with extension into Azure and AWS platforms with the company being recognized as a “Top 15 Cloud Services Provider” and “Coolest Cloud Vendor in the Country” with more than $30 million in revenue. He currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer & Vice President of DXC Microsoft Americas focused on infrastructure, managed services and cloud solutions for customers throughout the U.S. and is nationally recognized as an expert in the areas of emerging and disruptive technologies.
“Blockchain is poised for explosive growth,” said Pierce. “I couldn’t be happier to be part of one of the leading blockchain success stories in the country.”
“We are thrilled to make this election to our board,” said Rosa Shores, Co-Founder and CEO of BlockSpaces. “Greg’s experienced leadership within the enterprise software space, as well as his success at scaling startup ventures, will be instrumental in helping to lead BlockSpaces through our next phase of growth.”
In conjunction with the election of Pierce, the company introduced a new operating model and 2 additional members of their management team. The new operating model, which is centered on a new product-based business segment, will position the company to have a stronger emphasis on the development of their core Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Harmonia, which is aimed at mid-market companies seeking to integrate blockchain with their legacy systems. 
Also joining the team is Charles Dyer, also previously with DXC, who will be taking over the role of Chief Operating Officer, and Chris Tyler, from IBM, who will be leading the company's technology team, as Chief Technology Officer, with their shift to enterprise focused blockchain development. Both Dyer and Tyler bring with them decades of Fortune 200 enterprise software development and product go-to-market experience.
Also joining the team is Charles Dyer, also previously with DXC, who will be taking over the role of Chief Operating Officer, and Chris Tyler, from IBM, who will be leading the company's technology team, as Chief Technology Officer, with their shift to enterprise focused blockchain development. Both Dyer and Tyler bring with them decades of Fortune 200 enterprise software development and product go-to-market experience.“The opportunity for BlockSpaces now is to scale and support blockchain adoption in the mid-market enterprise with Harmonia." said Dyer. "I’m excited for the opportunity to reinforce and accelerate continued innovation, quality, and growth.”
“I have been working with BlockSpaces for over two years now as an advisor to them and their partner organizations on enterprise blockchain and IBM partner programs,” said Tyler. “They have always been a thought leader in the use of multiple blockchain technologies and I’m excited to be a part of their future. Harmonia will simplify our customers’ adoption of blockchain by easily integrating the multiple systems and processes they use with a variety of blockchain networks, and will allow our customers to fully recognize the benefits promised by these networks.”BlockSpaces opened its doors in Tampa in late 2017. At that time, co-founders, Rosa Shores and Gabe Higgins, both early adopters of blockchain, saw local demand for a collaborative space dedicated to developers and enthusiasts of the technology. Over the past year, the company has shifted focus to internal product development of enterprise solutions and raised $100,000 from a local angel investor in January. After completing a blockchain based distributed ID Proof of Concept for the Seminole County Tax Collector's office in March, the company had just kicked off a seed round of investment in March when the COVID-19 pandemic closed down their Embarc Collective office in downtown Tampa. “Although the pandemic initially stalled the seed round in Q1, we have seen an uptick in interest around blockchain solutions which added a significant pipeline to our existing funnel and solidified product-market fit for our PaaS integration platform,” said Dyer.
“We have been in this industry since 2012, and our mission has always been to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology to transform business, industry and society,” said co-founder, Gabe Higgins. “As enterprise blockchain adoption continues to explode, we are seeing mid-market companies left under-served and unable to easily integrate with enterprise blockchain solutions and participate in networks that will impact their entire industry. Our new model will allow us to be more nimble and pursue new growth opportunities in a disciplined way that ultimately meets our customers’ needs no matter what stage of development they are in with this transformative technology. We are excited about the plans Greg and our new leadership team members have developed to move BlockSpaces to greater levels of success, as we kick off this capital raise.”
BlockSpaces, based in Tampa, Florida is a blockchain and distributed ledger technology focused product development company that offers end to end business solutions, including blockchain consulting and education, custom full-stack software product development, technical support for enterprise, and community support for a marketplace of blockchain applications. For more information visit blockspaces.io or contact rosa@blockspaces.io
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Wednesday, 17 June 2020 01:00
Is the mid-market being left behind on blockchain?
Written by Chuck Dyer
Blockchain adoption within the enterprise has continued to increase over the past year, despite the impact of COVID-19 on the business landscape. In fact, we have seen an increase in real-world blockchain use cases within specific industries. The recent survey conducted by Deloitte on Global Blockchain in 2020 reveals that blockchain has moved from promise to reality.
When blockchain made its debut over 10 years ago, it was widely viewed as a one trick pony supporting the novel cryptocurrency phenomenon. Today, we have an emerging technology that has become a game-changing, disruptive and foundational technology within many industries.
Deloitte’s latest survey shows that almost 40% of respondents from major technology companies worldwide currently have blockchain in production and almost nine in ten think blockchain will become more important in the next three years.
Large enterprises (over $1B in revenue) have emerged as early adopters of the technology with 55% of them stating that blockchain is not only critical, but it is in their top 5 strategic priorities over the next 24 months.
While large enterprises continue to implement these solutions within their business and ecosystem; mid-market companies are being left behind. The pandemic has been devastating to many mid-market companies, gutting their revenues, and causing them to pull back on any investment. Additionally, mid-market companies are discovering that blockchain is hard, and they don’t have access to resources and talent to help them implement, or even connect, into these blockchain enabled ecosystems.
BlockSpaces has focused its collective efforts by developing a cloud-based middle-ware PaaS that simplifies integration of systems and software connecting mid-market companies to enterprise blockchain solutions and networks.
HarmoniaTM enables integration of both private and public blockchains allowing transactions that require different blockchain protocols to be executed efficiently from a single source. Although there are now hundreds of blockchain networks in operation, they are unable to integrate with each other, and interoperability solutions have primarily been focused on public (permission-less) blockchain networks leaving enterprise-focused, private (permissioned) blockchain integration solutions lacking.
If you are interested in learning more about blockchain or how BlockSpaces is bridging the gap between mid-market and enterprise, visit our website at: https://blockspaces.io, or call us to start the conversation.
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Tampa, FL— May 18, 2020 — Today, BlockSpaces announced that their core product, HarmoniaTM , entered private beta with select partners. Harmonia is a platform that enables integration of both public and private blockchains that allows transactions that require different blockchain protocols to be executed efficiently from a single source.
As blockchain technology becomes more pervasive across industries and across business processes, it is becoming more apparent that systems will involve communication and integration with multiple blockchain networks and technologies, as well as seamless integration into legacy applications. Harmonia is designed to serve as an integrated message bus for blockchain-based applications and their underlying blockchain technologies and platforms while, client-side, hiding the technical complexities associated with integrating the various blockchain networks.
Some of the most current leading use cases for blockchain in business are in supply chain, provenance of goods, financial transactions and decentralized identity. Today, the early adopters of blockchain have built applications specific to the use case, whether that is food safety, logistics and tracking, digital trust and identity management, or building a marketplace for trusted suppliers and buyers. These are generally stand-alone applications built with different protocols and technologies and they’re managed by different organizations within different environments.
“Blockchain is not a stand-alone technology, it should be part of a business process; and to truly recognize the value, it must be seamlessly integrated into current systems and processes”, said BlockSpaces COO, Chuck Dyer. “We are seeing an escalating trend in enterprise adoption of blockchain technologies. Being able to facilitate easy connectivity and interoperability with these networks is where we are going to lead the pack.”
Harmonia is designed to simplify the integration of your current business systems and processes with new or existing blockchain networks by leveraging an extensible, connector-based framework. To speed integrations, Harmonia provides a library of pre-built connectors for leading enterprise applications, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle ERP/CRM, SAP, Salesforce and more. Harmonia also provides a marketplace of connectors for leading enterprise blockchain networks such as IBM Food Trust, TradeLens, WorldWire, Quorum and Bitcoin.
Even if you are looking to develop your own applications to integrate with a blockchain network or you’re looking to develop your own network for your ecosystem or consortium, the Harmonia Connector Framework will allow you to build custom connectors which can be made available on our Harmonia marketplace.
“For years, BlockSpaces has remained focused on blockchain technology from an agnostic perspective, and we have seen the value in the entire spectrum of it’s innovation”, said Gabe Higgins, BlockSpaces’ CBO/CoFounder. “We are excited to add our expertise to the rapid advancement of this technology and inevitable movement toward a multi-blockchain world.”
BlockSpaces, Inc.
BlockSpaces is a blockchain and distributed ledger focused product development company located in Tampa, Florida. BlockSpaces offers blockchain consulting and education, custom software development, and technical support for enterprise, and community support for our marketplace blockchain applications.
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Tampa, FL— April 27, 2020 — BlockSpaces is inviting visitors to explore their new website. The new website has been designed to offer the ultimate user-friendly experience with improved navigation and functionality while allowing visitors to see product portfolios and services BlockSpaces can offer.
Created with the user experience in mind, the site includes numerous new features to help users navigate the site quickly and easily to find the product or service they need. New features include:
- Product Catalog which allows users to explore a full list of products and request a demo to help users with their blockchain vision.
- Services Offered which allows users to easily narrow down the services they are interested in from consulting to integration and how BlockSpaces can assist.
- Insights Menu allowing users access to white papers, case studies, and a research library.
In addition, the product catalog has allowed BlockSpaces to showcase their full product portfolio on the site for users to easily navigate through. You can now find all of the products that BlockSpaces has developed and continues to develop along with a full list of strategic, technology and business partners including IBM, R3, Quorum, FloridaMakes, and Microsoft.
Visitors to the new site can stay informed with the latest BlockSpaces and industry news through the online blog and podcast. The blog and the podcast will contain richer online content such as in depth discussions, press releases, featured products, and newsletters. This valuable content will be consistently updated on the new site so the user is always just one click away from useful and pertinent information.
For more information on BlockSpaces and to view the new site, please visit https://blockspaces.io.
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Sunday, 05 April 2020 14:28
BlockSpaces, FloridaMakes, BAMA presents COVID19 Supply Chain Best Practices
Written by Rosa Shores
Tampa, FL— April 1, 2020— BlockSpaces, a blockchain and distributed ledger focused product development company, announced today that Co-Founder/CEO Rosa Shores and Chief Technology Officer Chris Tyler will be participating in a COVID-19 Best Practice webinar on April 6, 2020, titled “COVID-19 Best Practices: Blockchain, cybersecurity, and managing liquidity”. The webinar event, hosted by FloridaMakes, in partnership with Bay Area Manufacturers Association, will give a blockchain overview as well as discuss some of the supply chain challenges faced during the COVID19 outbreak. The talk will focus on specific blockchain solutions, and how blockchain can be instrumental in impacting global supply chain resilience.
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