Introduction

The 451 Firestarter awardees in the third quarter of 2019 consist of large and small technology firms who 451 Research analysts believe are disrupting and innovating in their given fields. The focus of the recipients range s from collaboration and customer relationship management to network infrastructure, computational storage and more. We are proud to recognize the impact that these thirteen disruptors are making in their respective markets.


The 451 Take

The 451 Firestarter award recognizes organizations for exceptional innovation and disruption in their market. Firestarters are awarded quarterly to technology firms of any size and age. Awardees are nominated by the 451 Research analyst team based on their own insights and expert opinion of long-term trends and competitive landscape, and their in-depth conversations within the industry. Nominations are based on a combination of factors, including uniqueness, strategic and technology vision, and the disruptive potential of the organization's technology. Award recipients fall within the four key technology themes of 4SIGHT, the 451 Research framework for understanding the evolution of the digital transformation landscape: Contextual Experience, Invisible Infrastructure, Pervasive Intelligence and Universal Risk.

The Four Technology Pillars of the 4SIGHT Framework

Contextual Experience defines interactions between a customer, worker or citizen and an organization that are augmented by rich sources of real-time information, delivered to them in the right format and at the right time, for an experience that is friction-free, empowered by technologies such as smartphones, machine learning and the cloud.

Invisible Infrastructure describes the evolution of IT and communications infrastructure to meet the demands of modern, digital organizations, enabling technology consumers to assemble, access and pay for digital services in a simple, seamless and automated manner, without specific knowledge of the underlying physical infrastructure.

Pervasive Intelligence describes the ubiquitous use of data and analytics to drive not just business decisions, but also the core operational applications of the business itself. 451 Research defines Pervasive Intelligence as the infusion of human and artificial intelligence into applications, services, workflows, systems, devices and computing systems infrastructure – on the cloud, in the datacenter and at the edge – to deliver, democratize and automate data-driven decision-making.

Universal Risk reflects the new reality of digital transformation. Today, the risks of IT are largely confined to the operational realm, or the consequences of cyberthreats. As technology increasingly permeates virtually all aspects of everyday life, its impact will become pervasive – more universal – as will the risks that arise from the consequences of technology failures and threats at every level, from the personal to the corporate to the national and global.

Recipients of the Q3 2019 451 Research Firestarter Awards (in alphabetical order)

Cisco (Collaboration)
Nominated by Raul Castanon-Martinez, Senior Analyst, Workforce Collaboration and Communications

Cisco Collaboration has received a Q3 Firestarter Award for its innovative approach to Cognitive Collaboration, with AI-enabled capabilities that build intelligence and context awareness across its portfolio including its unified communications as a service, contact center, devices and cloud-connected offerings.

Our take – Cognitive Collaboration brings to market a combination of intelligent and contextual features such as Webex Assistant, People Insights and Proximity Pairing that enhance and differentiate the Cisco Collaboration portfolio. These AI-enabled capabilities go beyond an improved user experience; they are designed to create smarter workspaces and improve employee engagement, redefining how employees communicate and collaborate with each other, allowing organizations to enable high-performance teams.

More about Cisco Collaboration – Incumbent providers of unified communications and collaboration technologies face a rapidly evolving landscape, with emerging providers of video communications and team collaboration challenging the status quo. Although initially reactive to these challenges, in the last two years Cisco underwent a major transformation that resulted in a completely revamped collaboration portfolio. Cisco has brought together numerous assets – including best in class capabilities for calling and online meetings – into a streamlined, tightly integrated portfolio that is aligned with key trends in productivity and collaboration. The capabilities enabled by Cognitive Collaboration give Cisco solid footing to position Webex as a platform for digital transformation. Together with an extensive market footprint and a strong focus on workflow integration and team collaboration, these efforts reaffirm its position as a key innovator in the collaboration space.

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K2View (Fabric)
Nominated by Paige Bartley, Senior Analyst, Data Management

K2View, with the K2View Fabric offering, has earned a Q3 2019 451 Firestarter award for tackling the challenge of real-time data integration and exposure at scale. Data integration historically has been known as difficult, slow, and expensive: more so with increased complexity of the IT environment. K2View is notable for its IP and architecture, which allows it to exist as an invisible layer that seamlessly delivers data to the applications that need it.

Our take – Historically, pain points of data integration included system downtime and batch processes which put a ticking clock on data relevancy. Today’s data-driven enterprise needs accurate data, exposed in real time to all its applications. Rather than storing hundreds of copies of data in hundreds of applications, applications should be able to all draw from the same source data: preferably organized around logical concepts such as individual customers or products. This is what the K2View Fabric platform aims to do, enabling real-time integration and 360° view of entities.

More about K2View – K2View originally set out to build a better ETL: one without system downtime. But today the K2View Fabric approach represents a new generation of data integration, with a novel IP-based architecture and leverage of commodity hardware. Secure “micro-databases” store all data associated with any defined “logical unit” such as a single customer, product, or location: providing a 360° view and exposing data to higher applications in real time. K2View inherently overlaps into the MDM space as well with its capability to consolidate all relevant data around defined business entities. The result is the real-time delivery of relevant data to the applications and end users that ultimately need it, all while operating as an invisible layer itself.



Masters of Pie (Radical)
Nominated by Ian Hughes, Senior Analyst, Internet of Things

Masters of Pie (MoP) has earned a Firestarter award for Q3 2019 for the development of its spatial computing platform, Radical, that provides a way to access existing Computer Aided Design/Engineering (CAD/CAE) data as a shared experience across multiple forms of Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR), tablets and mobile devices.

Our take – With Radical, MoP has taken a novel approach with a plugin architecture that be used in most CAD/CAE packages to provide a platform-agnostic extension allowing collaborative AR and VR. All data about the design being explored is still driven by the engineering truth of the CAD/CAE package. Extending data from engineering design out further into other industrial tasks, and for other roles, is an essential part of the digital transformation of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) into a true part of a digital thread, such as being able to fuse 3D models with IIoT data at runtime. Many AR and VR applications rely on costly, manually rebuilt, 3D Models or file exports, for performance reasons, and these lose the link to the original detailed designs and hence create a silos.

More about Masters of Pie – The company approach has been to make the engineering work highly flexible and then to gain a significant first customer partner agreement with Siemens NX, thus proving the approach in real-world situations. MoP was officially formed in 2011 to explore prototyping of real-time visualization for enterprises. The company decided to develop its Radical platform as a plugin and server architecture, initially for engineering, but aims to bring shared spatial computing to other industry verticals and to evolve with the industry.

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NGD Systems
Nominated by Tim Stammers, Senior Analyst, Storage

NGD is pioneering the use of computational flash drives that process data within the devices themselves, in order to boost application performance by eliminating data movements between drives and server CPUs. Computational storage is drawing much interest, but currently there are very few such devices shipping, and the most distinctive qualities of NGD's drives are their flexibility and ease of deployment.

Our take – Computational storage is an emerging architecture that is set to boost performance for data-intensive applications such as machine learning and analytics, by reversing the conventional approach of moving data to server processors, and instead bringing the processing to the data. The approach is generating widespread and active interest from multiple tier-one vendors and start-ups.

Start-up NGD is pioneering the use of computational flash drives that process data within the devices themselves. There are very few other such devices shipping at present, and the most distinctive qualities of the NGD drives are their flexibility and ease of deployment.


More about NGD Systems – NGD was founded in 2013 by specialists in flash drive controller design. Uniquely for computational storage drives, NGD’s devices host third-party code in a Linux instance on the drive. This allows the devices to handle a wide range of workloads, using unmodified code in areas such as content distribution, image searching, or even Microsoft’s entire Azure IoT Edge software stack. 

In 2017, NGD shipped its first generation of devices, which featured FPGA controllers. This year the company began shipping second-generation devices whose controllers are based on an ASIC designed by NGD. These are the only computational storage drives on the market that are entirely ASIC-powered, and NGD’s very few rivals in this sector remain committed to FPGA-based controllers that do not host third-party software. The switch to an ASIC has also increased the data capacity and throughput of the drives, while heavily reducing costs and power consumption compared to the previous FPGA-powered devices. Even when compared to conventional, non-computational drives, NGD claims market-leading qualities for its drives.




Nintex
Nominated by Carl Lehmann, Principal Analyst, Applied Infrastructure & DevOps

Nintex has earned a Q3 2019 451 Firestarter award for the way it’s weaving earlier accusations into its Nintex Process Platform. It is adding the robotic process automation (RPA) technology gained through the pickup of EnableSoft. But, and more importantly, its inclusion of last year’s Promapp acquisition positions Nintex as the only process automation vendor to manage overall enterprise business processes as a portfolio of strategic assets.

Our take – With EnableSoft Nintex joined the thrilling RPA market where software robots automate repetitive manual tasks and augment workforce skills. Promapp may be less thrilling but positions Nintex as unique among rivals because it helps document and manage all an enterprise’s business processes (even those that do not run in the Nintex Process Platform) as strategic assets. Earlier such efforts used enterprise architecture management software which was too complex and costly. Promapp’s simpler documentation approach can help enterprise examine their processes to create new competitive advantage. No other digital automation platform (DAP) vendor does this.

More about Nintex – The Nintex Process Platform is designed to create workflow-enabled web and mobile applications. It can craft and logically distribute forms and documents equipped with electronic signatures. It’s equipped with connectors to link to the various applications and ecosystems that execute processes such as Salesforce and Office 365. And, it includes analytic tooling to help manage processes performance and extract insight from data payloads and process execution. All features offered by many other DAP vendors on the market today. However, Nintex believes that its no-code approach that lets users compose rather than code workflows and process-oriented applications sets it apart. We believe though, that its recent acquisition strategy is what will differentiate it in the automation markets.



Nubeva
Nominated by Mike Fratto, Senior Analyst, Applied Infrastructure and DevOps

Nubeva has earned a Firestarter in a very mature product segment by approaching packet capture from a cloud-native direction and elegantly solving the thorny issue of passively decrypting TLS 1.3 encrypted traffic. Nubeva’s Prisms product is well suited for vendors looking to integrate or OEM cloud native packet capture.

Our take – Monitoring starts with data acquisition and in the cloud that means software. Changes to TLS 1.3 will make passive, out of band TLS decryption nearly impossible crippling company’s capture strategies. One solution, moving to a full, terminating TLS proxy, will impose significant performance penalties on traffic causing companies to deploy significant resources to keep up with demand. Nubeva’s passive approach, Prisms TLS Decrypt, is unique in the market with claims of supporting over 1 million sessions.

More about Nubeva – Nubeva was founded in March 2016 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Nubeva went public on March 2018 and is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada. The Company reported that it has 121 active users at the end of the quarter ending 1/31/2019, up from 57 subscribers at the end of the previous quarter, and 173 active users as of the date of this press release.

Nubeva launched its Prisms packet capture product in September 2018. Prisms is a cloud-managed agent designed to acquire, filter and forward network traffic to security and analytics products for deeper analysis. Prisms TLS Decrypt and its Prisms cloud native network tap product make it a good acquisition target for companies in the APM, NPM, and security verticals that want a cloud native packet capture. Prisms TLS Decrypt is patent pending and available on a subscription basis. The company is considering it for an OEM in the future.



People.AI
Nominated by Sheryl Kingstone, Research Vice President & General Manager - VOCUL

There has been a lot of attention focused on consumer data, and not enough on the single view of B2B data. People.ai has earned a Q3 2019 451 Firestarter award for its focus on the latter. CRM systems were supposed to be the holder of all customer data, but they rely heavily on manual entry, which is prone to human error and often leads to missing or inadequate data. 451 Research estimates that most businesses have less than 20% of the data needed for effective decision-making. That critical data is scattered across silos including social, video, voice, email, calendar, collaboration, mobile and other applications required by employees and, more specifically, sales teams.

Our take – People.ai essentially offers a B2B customer intelligence platform. It seeks to solve B2B problems by using machine learning and natural language processing to capture data from existing sources in the hopes of reducing inefficient manual data entry. The goal is to help free up time for sales representatives to focus on revenue-generating activities rather than engaging in time-consuming tasks that could be automated. Leveraging People.ai’s technology, New Relic claims it was able to capture over 100,000 contacts and activity data within the first six months of deployment and improve CRM data accuracy by 40%. People.ai works with a host of companies in industries that include cybersecurity, identity management, customer experience, cloud management and many others.

More about People.ai – Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, People.ai’s sales automation platform automates and ingests customer data to provide guidance on the best way for salespeople to source and close more deals. The company was founded by Oleg Rogynskyy, who worked extensively in the big-data space prior to People.ai. In terms of its sales strategy, People.ai sells directly to the customer 60% of the time and through partners 40% of the time.

The company has raised $100m in funding thus far, with the most recent being a $60m round led by Iconiq, Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others. In order to establish itself as a more credible player in the market, People.ai plans to use the funding to expand commercial operations and customer acquisition, as well as boost data science and engineering initiatives companywide.



Rancher Labs
Nominated by Jean Atelsek, Analyst, Cloud Transformation and Digital Economics Unit

Rancher Labs has earned a Q3 2019 451 Firestarter award for its trailblazing work on making containers easy to use and accessible. Its full-fledged support of Kubernetes and its determination to reduce the toil of launching and managing clusters have won it an enthusiastic following in the developer community.

Our take – Rancher thrives on developing lightweight, elegant and platform-agnostic options for multi-cluster orchestration, making it possible to handle a range of Kubernetes implementations from a common management platform. Though it started with its own orchestration software called Cattle, which proved popular among early Docker adopters, it accurately foresaw that Kubernetes would grow into a more pluggable and extensible framework that would ultimately win the day. The company envisions a future in which Kubernetes underlies infrastructure from edge to datacenter to cloud, with the universal unit of compute management being the cluster rather than the virtual machine – a reasonable endgame given Kubernetes' indisputable momentum, and one that Rancher can pursue wholeheartedly given its software and container roots.

More about Rancher Labs – Rancher sees Kubernetes as quickly emerging from the domain of do-it-yourself innovators into large-scale enterprise production, and it has built out a suite of software that caters to developers as well as central IT departments. The company now delivers a full-stack portfolio including its flagship Rancher container management platform, RKE (a full-featured Kubernetes distribution), k3s (a lightweight distribution), Submariner (for cross-cluster network connectivity), Longhorn (distributed block storage) and Rio (a microPaaS for Kubernetes). The idea is to wrangle a variety of enterprise implementations, including managed Kubernetes platforms offered by AWS, Azure and Google under one umbrella for unified IT operations.

Rancher sees Kubernetes as quickly emerging from the domain of do-it-yourself innovators into large-scale enterprise production, and it has built out a suite of software that caters to developers as well as central IT departments. The company now delivers a full-stack portfolio including its flagship Rancher container management platform, RKE (a full-featured Kubernetes distribution), k3s (a lightweight distribution), Submariner (for cross-cluster network connectivity), Longhorn (distributed block storage) and Rio (a microPaaS for Kubernetes). The idea is to wrangle a variety of enterprise implementations, including managed Kubernetes platforms offered by AWS, Azure and Google under one umbrella for unified IT operations.

Salesforce.com (myTrailhead)
Nominated by Conner Forrest, Analyst, Workforce Productivity and Compliance

Salesforce’s myTrailhead, launched in March 2019, has earned the company a Q3 2019 451 Firestarter award based on its extension of the original Trailhead platform in a manner that more broadly tackles the challenges enterprises face with traditional learning management system (LMS) software. By providing a customizable learning model that promotes continuous upskilling through gamification and badging, myTrailhead addresses the lack of personalization and contextualization in many LMS products, while also leveraging analytics to measure adoption and skill proficiency. These features could help companies take a more modern approach to organizational planning while increasing internal mobility/recruiting and boosting employee engagement as well.

Our take – Investing in a modern learning and development strategy can improve overall productivity, increase the number of available skills within an organization and improve employee engagement. However, traditional learning management system (LMS) offerings have struggled to offer the level of personalization and contextualization necessary for today’s workforce. Salesforce’s myTrailhead, launched in March 2019, is a learning experience platform (LXP) that addresses these challenges with a customizable learning model that promotes continuous upskilling through gamification and badging.

More about Salesforce myTrailhead – The initiative builds on the original Trailhead platform (that focused mostly on Salesforce-specific skills) but expands the concept to include more room for custom content and relevant skills. Analytics capabilities, like those offered through the Trail Tracker app, help managers get a clearer picture of how training is being adopted; and the badging system certifies an employee’s proficiency in a certain skill.
These features could help companies take a more modern approach to organizational planning while increasing internal mobility/recruiting and increasing employee engagement as well.

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Signal Sciences
Nominated by Scott Crawford, Research Vice President, Information Security

Signal Sciences has adroitly adapted the web application firewall (WAF) for a hybrid IT world, creating a software based onsite and SaaS based delivery of web application protection with a variety of implementation options in a space historically dominated by network appliances.

Our take – Founded in 2014 by former security professionals at Etsy who were seeking to solve application security issues at scale there, Signal Sciences offers a next generation Web Application Firewall (WAF), that seeks to move away from legacy WAF approaches that were often pushed forward only by compliance mandates such as PCI, and were due to accuracy issues often run with minimum blocking rules in place. Signal Sciences asserts that 95% of customers are running the product in full automated blocking mode.

Signal Sciences is more than a traditional WAF, however. Architecturally, it is SaaS-based, leveraging a cloud-based engine that uses collective intelligence gathered from the company’s universe of customers. At the protected application, a number of deployment options are available including on the application’s web server, from within the application, as a reverse proxy, or most recently as a hosted cloud WAF via a DNS change. Full feature parity is maintained between deployment options, and more importantly all feed into the same management console, a key security operations concern in what are increasingly hybrid environments featuring an application footprint both on-premises and in multiple clouds.

More about Signal Sciences – Signal Sciences raised a $35mm C round in February, in addition to the $26.7mm raised prior to that. The firm has 115 employees as of last count, more than double the prior year, and earned $15mm in revenue per 451’s private company estimates in 2018, with a $30mm target in 2019. Customers include firms like Adobe, WeWork, and Under Armour.

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Silverfort
Nominated by Garrett Bekker, Principal Security Analyst, Information Security

451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise (VotE) data shows that despite the limitations of traditional passwords, just 53% of enterprises have implemented multi-factor authentication (MFA), largely due to a poor experience for users, admins and developers. Adaptive authentication platform provider Silverfort has earned a Q3 2019 451 Firestarter award based on its ability to deliver strong authentication to any application, user, device, resource or system without installing an agent or in-line gateway, and without modifying applications or user behavior. Silverfort’s ‘any-to-any’ authentication framework can also allow firms to pursue a Zero Trust security strategy without making extensive changes to their existing environments.

Our take – Israel-based startup Silverfort offers an authentication platform that can deliver strong authentication to any application, user, device, resource or system, across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments. More importantly, the company can accomplish this without making any changes to client devices or applications or requiring any modifications to user behavior, and also without installing an agent or in-line gateway. VoTE data shows MFA adoption at just north of 50%, which could provide a notable opportunity for Silverfort.

More about Silverfort – Silverfort was founded in 2016 by CEO Hed Kovetz, president Matan Fattal and CTO Yaron Kassner, each of whom previously served in the highly regarded 8200 cybersecurity unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. Leonid Shtilman, co-founder and CEO of Viewfinity (acquired by CyberArk in 2015 for $30.5m in cash), serves as executive chairman and VP of business development. Silverfort maintains its current headquarters in Tel Aviv and has a US office in Boston. Silverfort has raised a total of $14m from TLV Partners, StageOne Ventures and Singtel Innov8 (Singtel's VC arm). Silverfort has formal strategic partnerships with Okta, Microsoft, Cyber Ark, Check Point and Palo Alto Networks.

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Syntiant
Nominated by John Abbott, Founder & Distinguished Analyst, 4SIGHT

A Q3 2019 451 Firestarter award has been awarded to Syntiant, one of the players in the increasingly crowded sector of silicon accelerators for new generation workloads, most notably artificial intelligence. What differentiates Syntiant are the backing of some serious strategic investors, and its focus on ultra-low power applications. While many of its competitors have tried to scale down power-hungry general-purpose architectures such as CPUs and GPUs, Syntiant designed its parts from scratch for maximum efficiency, to support new levels of intelligence within battery powered and energy harvesting edge devices.

Our take – Syntiant has taken something of a different path from most of the other new entrants into the fast-growing sector of AI accelerators. Its neural decision processors (NDPs) are aimed at always-on battery-powered voice and sensor devices where power efficiency has to be in the microwatt range. By designing from the ground up and focusing on memory rather than logic, on massively parallel processing, and on modest rather than high precision, Syntiant claims that it can achieve approximately 100 times efficiency improvements and faster performance compared with stored program architectures such as CPUs and digital signal processors (DSPs).

More about Syntiant – Founded in 2017, Irvine, California-based Syntiant has raised $30m in funding from mostly strategic investors, including Amazon, Applied Materials, Bosch, Intel, Microsoft and Motorola Solutions. It’s already sampling its first two neural decision processor chips: the NDP100 and NDP101, both microwatt-power devices designed to run deep learning algorithms at the edge. The first production parts should be out this summer. The key to its strategy is its concentration on optimizing multiply-accumulate operations as close to the memory as it can, without the expensive and power-sipping baggage of chips that have been scaled down from more general-purpose architectures such as CPUs and GPUs. However, this is only an interim step, designed to get it to market more rapidly. The vendor is working on even more efficient processors for future release that use analog computational techniques within flash memory, and that's where its real future lies.

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Turbot
Nominated by Fernando Montenegro, Principal Analyst, Information Security

Turbot has earned a Q3 2019 451 Firestarter award based on its governance platform for cloud deployments. Many organizations are facing the need to evolve traditional IT practices – service catalogs, IT-provisioned infrastructure – into a cloud-centric approach that values agility and freedom, but to do so without losing control. By providing a platform that integrates into different cloud environments and other SaaS offerings while offering a platform-agnostic management layer, Turbot addresses the needs of cloud development teams as well as management concerns for security, governance and cost control. Turbot's offering could help companies tackle the balance needed between maintaining compliance and control over sprawling cloud resources while allowing teams to continue to pursue innovation at a much faster pace.

Our take – One of the more profound changes that cloud brings to modern IT is the existence of built-in security controls, but those controls are almost always centered on a provider’s own offerings. Organizations need an effective mechanism that can take corporate policies and translate those into the specific details of each environment. Turbot offers this in an elegant and extensible manner, making it well-suited as an example of how third-party security vendors can offer value in the face of increasingly capable built-in security features.

More about Pluralsight – Turbot was founded in 2014 by CEO Nathan Wallace, and is self-funded. Wallace’s previous experience is centered around his time at Johnson & Johnson, where he was an executive leading the company’s Cloud Service and DevOps efforts. The company currently has approximately 50 employees spread across the United States, India, Australia, and the UK.

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About 4SIGHT

4SIGHT brings together the top thought leadership of 451 Research to help frame conversations about the evolution of enterprise IT. It isn't a quadrant or a wave – it's informed perspective that can fuel your planning.

All organizations are finding themselves navigating a challenging and changing digital transformation landscape. It's hard to know what path to take and which obstacles to tackle first. In this new world, it's very easy to fall into one-size-fits-all guidance, but an oversimplified model can't address the unique aspects, skills, assets and expectations of your organization. What is really needed is a frame of reference to start more specific conversations. That's where 4SIGHT comes in.

We've built this framework to bring some clarity to the digital transformation landscape, and to help companies plan for the future in ways that fit their situation and aspirations. Organizations can expand the context of these scenarios to prepare for a wider range of outcomes.

We've grouped 4SIGHT into four areas. Like the real world, they're not distinct, and there is considerable overlap between them. They're not fixed, either. That's by design – it's a living framework that we'll update with new information, course-correcting as the future unfolds. But it does provide a critical starting point for the deeper discussions that all organizations need to have about changes in technology today.
Fernando Montenegro
Senior Analyst, Information Security

Fernando is a Senior Analyst on the Information Security team, based in Toronto. He has broad experience in security architecture, particularly network security for enterprise environments. He currently focuses on covering vendors and industry events in the endpoint security and cloud security spaces.

Jeremy Korn
Research Associate

Jeremy Korn is a Research Associate at 451 Research. He graduated from Brown University with a BA in Biology and East Asian Studies and received a MA in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, where he employed quantitative and qualitative methodologies to study the Chinese film industry.

Aaron Sherrill
Senior Analyst

Aaron Sherrill is a Senior Analyst for 451 Research covering emerging trends, innovation and disruption in the Managed Services and Managed Security Services sectors. Aaron has 20+ years of experience across several industries including serving in IT management for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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