John Gay is a Sr. Manager at Syncsort, where he leads the Sales Engineering group. John has been at Syncsort for 18 years. His focus is currently IBM Power (AIX and IBM i) with a focus on Data Availability, Security, and database replication technologies. Prior to working at Syncsort, John worked in the business intelligence space at Informatica and DataMirror. He also spent many years in software development at IBM and Sterling Software/Commerce.