The program also establishes strategic alliances with firms providing complementary technologies.

Current members of the Aleri Global Partner Program include Microsoft, Sun, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Sybase, Headstrong, Selero, Algonetic Systems and ActivFinancial.

"In this market where microseconds matter for trade completion and for capitalizing on arbitrage opportunities, trading firms are looking for technological and performance edge in processing and analyzing streaming market data. Sun Microsystems is very excited to be working with Aleri to offer low latency algorithmic trading solutions based on Aleri's high performance event processing software and Sun's innovative, proven Solaris(TM) 10 operating system," said Joseph Marty, Director of Financial Services Partners, Sun Microsystems.

While Aleri's focus to date has been serving the low-latency event processing needs of the financial services industry, this technology has proven itself in a wide range of other industries including Telecommunications, Data Warehousing, Network Security and RFID. To address these diverse industries as efficiently as possible, Aleri's partner program has been developed to meet the requirements of a variety of partners and strategic relationships.

"The goal of the Aleri Global Partner Program is to offer customers and prospects a strong network of alliances that will provide them with access to unparalleled technology and industry expertise," said Don DeLoach, CEO of Aleri. "We have been working diligently to develop an extensive partner program. We value our current partners and look forward to growing this group of highly respected companies."

The Aleri Global Partner Program delivers education, marketing and technical support to Aleri's partner base and facilitates its partners' success by providing the most robust architecture available for the rapid development of mission critical applications within the most demanding environments. Among the benefits extended to Aleri's Global Partner Program participants are volume discounts, free software licenses for internal use and demo purposes, participation in joint sales and marketing activities and regular access to Aleri's development team that includes pioneers in the field of event processing.