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Henry Baltazar is a senior analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals. He has evaluated and tested storage hardware and software offerings for more than 15 years as an industry analyst and as a journalist. Henry advises Forrester clients of data center infrastructure technologies including storage virtualization, cloud storage, solid-state storage, and primary storage arrays.

Henry comes to Forrester from 451 Research, where he was covering NAS and SAN storage arrays, cloud storage, and solid-state storage. At 451 Research, he advised vendors, venture capitalists, service providers, and end user clients on emerging technologies in the data storage market.

Prior to joining The 451 Group, Henry spent nearly nine years working as a technical analyst for eWeek Labs, where he covered storage, server hardware, and network operating systems. At eWeek Labs, he initiated the testing coverage of various technologies, including data replication, clustering, virtual tape libraries, storage virtualization, SAN management, NAS, iSCSI, and email archiving. In addition, Henry was a member of eWeek's editorial board and provided content for the magazine's enterprise storage blog. Henry has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as Silicon Valley Business Journal, Computerworld, and SearchStorage.com.

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