The leading provider of commercial open source middleware solutions for database high availability, Continuent, Inc., announced it has joined the EnterpriseDB™ Blade Partner Program. "Blade" is the term given to a technology solution that is complementary to or integrated with EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus™ or Postgres Plus Advanced Server™ products.

With EnterpriseDB, Blade partners will benefit from new routes to market, high visibility, and a wide range of co-marketing and business development opportunities. Customers of the EnterpriseDB Blade solutions benefit from well-defined, solution-based customer support while are also assured of the products' interoperability.

Continuent uni/cluster offers a multi-master approach to replication. Effectively eliminating data latency and providing increased reliability through redundancy, data is committed and available to all nodes in the cluster simultaneously. Providing near-linear scalability, and optimal resource utilization, throughput and response time, continuent uni/cluster includes a build-in load balancer, which allows any database server to be used to process user queries.

Chief technology officer, EnterpriseDB, Bob Zurek, said: "EnterpriseDB Blade Partners offer compelling solutions that are complementary to or integrated with EnterpriseDB's Postgres Plus and Postgres Plus Advanced Server products". "We are excited about the high quality and enthusiasm of the first companies to become part of the Blade Partner Program, and we think Blade customers will be delighted by the assured product interoperability and solution-based customer support."

CEO at Continuent, Eero Teerikorpi, said: "The solutions in this partner program solve daily key challenges facing customers, including database scale-out and data replication". "Our customers benefit from interoperability testing and integration certification by partners, which provide customers with predictable installation and ongoing operations, and gain optimal business value from their enterprise applications and databases."