Madison Pruet is an IBM Senior Engineer and architect of the Informix Dynamic Server replication and availability technology. He joined IBM in 2001 with the Informix acquisition. Madison's responsibilities include architecture design and implementation of the IDS Enterprise Replication and High Availability Data Replication functionality, For the recent IDS 11 release, Madison was responsible for designing and led he implementation of the new Continuous Availability Feature, utilizing Multi-node Active Clusters for High Availability (MACH 11). Prior to Madison's many years of experience in product development and R&D, he helped customers directly in a field support role. Madison's earlier industry experience includes engineering roles at La Quinta Inns, Sperry and Xerox. .