Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company Selects IBM

One of the nation's nationally recognized premier community banks, has
selected IBM systems to power a new backup-and-recovery solution.

Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company began in Louisville's stockyard
district more than 100 years ago and recently expanded to Indianapolis
and Cincinnati.

"The backup and recovery system installed by IBM and IBM Business
Partner Software Information Systems, is providing greater reliability
and has improved our operational efficiency," said Jim Condra, Stock
Yards chief information officer. "We chose to replace our
Hewlett-Packard servers and storage systems with IBM hardware largely
because of the expertise of the IBM and SIS team that helped us."

The backup and recovery solution is based on IBM System x3650 servers,
a storage area network (SAN) based on IBM System Storage EXP3000
expansion units, and VMware virtualization software.

Software Information Systems (SIS), an IBM Premier Business Partner,
worked closely with IBM and managed the solution installation,
configuration and associated training.

"IBM provided Stock Yards Bank & Trust with a customized
backup-and-recovery solution that fit their budget and provides an
easy-to-use solution that reduces administrative costs and energy
use," said Jeannette Browning, IBM client representative.