Introducing the Q4 2018 451 Firestarters

451 Research CEO Martin McCarthy recently announced the 451 Firestarters program at the Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit. 451 Firestarters is an analyst-led program that recognizes exceptional innovation in the technology industry regardless of its origin. Each Firestarter awardee falls into one of the four categories outlined in 4SIGHT, our major new report that seeks to empower the digital revolution: Contextual Experience, Invisible Infrastructure, Pervasive Intelligence and Universal Risk.

I am happy to share that my nomination was included with the inaugural group of 451 Firestarters awardees. To read more about how Twilio's impressive journey led to its nomination, click on the link below.

451 Firestarters:

• Twilio – Contextual experience. Twilio is a cloud communications platform as a service company that allows software developers to perform various communications using web service APIs.
• Adyen – Contextual experience. Adyen enables businesses to accept and process global, multi-channel transactions via a single payment platform. 
• AllSight – Contextual experience. AllSight enables organizations to confidently make decisions based on each customer’s unique POV instead of treating all customers the same. 
• Cohesity – Invisible infrastructure. Cohesity works to reinvent data infrastructure so IT is not stifled by complex data management within hybrid environments.
• DataRobot – Pervasive intelligence. DataRobot develops automated machine learning platforms with advanced analytical models for data scientists and engineers who know their data but don't have data science expertise.
• HashiCorp – Universal risk. HashiCorp aims to solve development, operations and security challenges in an organization’s infrastructure so it can focus on its business rather than threats.
• HERE Technologies – Pervasive intelligence. HERE Technologies is a location technology company focused on enabling three-dimensional mapping as our world continues to become more autonomous every day.
• JASK – Universal risk. JASK enables security operations centers to optimize human analyst resources, allowing experts to spend more time hunting down threats because they spend less time on mundane data collection tasks. 
• JFrog – Invisible infrastructure. JFrog offers a broad software portfolio that is aligned with growing adoption and implementation of DevOps technology and methodology.
• Luminate – Universal risk. Luminate enables IT teams to create Zero Trust application access architecture allowing users to connect to any corporate app from any device while reducing attack surface.
• RStor – Invisible infrastructure. RStor unlocks highly distributed, multi-cloud IT resources by networking them together and making then easier to use. 
• Sanmina 42Q – Pervasive intelligence. Sanmina’s 42Q is a cloud-based MES service to solve its own production challenges, and subsequently productized it as a service to sell to other manufacturers.
• Sea Street Technologies – Invisible infrastructure. Sea Street built a different approach to infrastructure orchestration and service delivery through model-based governance. 
• Smartsheet – Contextual experience. Smartsheet is a software-as-a-service application for collaboration and work management.
• Snowflake Computing – Pervasive intelligence. Snowflake Computing is a cloud-based data-warehousing startup whose product allows corporate users to store and analyze data using cloud-based hardware and software.
• Spotinst – Invisible infrastructure. Spotinst provides a cloud-application scaling service designed to optimize performance and costs. 
• Twistlock – Universal Risk. Twistlock provides container and cloud native cybersecurity solutions for the modern enterprise.