Henry Baltazar Research Director Storage, 451 Research

451 Research LLC announced the return of Henry Baltazar as research director for the Storage Research Channel.

He returns to 451 Research after spending nearly three years at Forrester Research as a senior analyst serving infrastructure and operations professionals and advising Forrester clients of datacenter infrastructure technologies, including storage virtualization, cloud storage, solid-state storage and primary storage arrays.

He has evaluated and tested storage hardware and software offerings for more than 15 years as an industry analyst and as a journalist.

Prior to his work with 451 Research and Forrester, he spent nearly nine years working as a technical analyst for eWeek Labs, where he covered storage, server hardware and network OSs. At eWeek Labs, he initiated the testing coverage of various technologies, including data replication, clustering, VTLs, storage virtualization, SAN management, NAS, iSCSI and email archiving. In addition, he was a member of eWeek‘s editorial board and provided content for the magazine’s enterprise storage blog.

He has been quoted in the press, including such media outlets as Silicon Valley Business Journal, Computerworld and SearchStorage.com.

He holds a B.A. in environmental sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.

“451 Research, and many of our clients, are excited to welcome Henry back. He will lead a world-class team and further expand our storage coverage. Henry is our fourteenth analyst hire this year, demonstrating our commitment to continually build the best and brightest research team,” said Brett Azuma, SVP research.

In 2015, 451 Research added 14 key additions to its analyst team.

Below is a list of recent hires and their coverage areas: