Henry Baltazar is research director of the 451 Research Storage channel within S&P Global Market Intelligence, with a focus on data storage. In his current role, Henry analyzes the market trends around environmental, social and governance (ESG) storage challenges, infrastructure modernization and resiliency. He publishes reports on trends in data storage, disaster recovery and hybrid cloud. He is often cited as a subject expert by publications such as MIT Technology Review, Forbes and TechTarget. Henry arrived at S&P Global Market Intelligence through its 2019 acquisition of 451 Research, where he began working as an analyst in August 2006. After spending three years running the storage research practice at Forrester, he returned to 451 Research in 2015 to fill the research director role and lead the storage practice. Henry graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s degree in environmental sciences.
Tables is an extension of the vendor's AIStor platform that integrates an Apache Iceberg catalog directly with the object storage layer. The move reflects MinIO's continuing transition from a general-purpose, open-source object storage specialist toward a broader data infrastructure provider.
The vendor delivers backup storage with robust immutability standards and tight security to offer organizations the crucial safety net required to withstand modern cybersecurity threats. With the introduction of additional capacity form factors and fleet management capabilities, Object First is positioned to expand its reach.
In January, Lenovo announced its intention to acquire Infinidat to expand its storage portfolio. It has been business as usual for the target since then, and its latest updates are intended to make its storage platform more compact, energy-efficient and cost-effective.
Getting data to where it is needed has always been an infrastructure challenge, but the scope and scale of the problem has become more acute as data volumes rise and AI demands more data. Research Director Henry Baltazar returns to discuss the results of the latest 451 Voice of the Enterprise Data Migration study with host Eric Hanselman.
At VMware Explore 2025, Broadcom announced key enhancements to VMware Cloud Foundation focused on storage and cybersecurity compliance. These developments reflect the vendor's strategy of embedding core capabilities directly into VCF to strengthen its role as the enterprise standard for private cloud.
Broadcom's VMware Explore, the annual conference on infrastructure virtualization, has wrapped up, and there are important takeaways from both the formal program and informal discussions. Analysts Jean Atelsek, Henry Baltazar and William Fellows join host Eric Hanselman to present their takes on the event.
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