Case Study: The Third Floor achieves scalable, secure virtual app sessions with itopia

Securing IP with Virtual App Sessions for The Third Floor‘s Visual Effects Studio

The Third Floor, a Los Angeles-based visual effects and pre-visualization studio, needed a way to support highly variable offsite artist teams working on secure client projects without sending IT staff to configure hardware and VDI systems at each location. As show sizes changed quickly, their on-premises setup was difficult to scale, time-consuming to deploy, and prone to downtime.

itopia provided a cloud-based solution built on Google Cloud, using virtual app sessions and automated domain, autoscaling, and custom image management to provision and remove VMs as needed. This let The Third Floor separate secure production content from internet activity, improve flexibility and availability, and reduce manual setup time and cloud waste, helping the team scale up and down on demand while better protecting client IP.

The Third Floor

Jeremy Oddo

Director of Technology