Alpine Bank Aligns Green Banking and IT Innovation Using Nexsan Energy-Efficient Storage Solutions

THOUSAND OAKS, CA, Apr 21 (MARKET WIRE) --
Nexsan, a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term disk storage,
today announced that, since June of 2007, Alpine Bank of Greenwood Springs,
Colo., has cut its data storage footprint in half, chopped storage costs by 30
percent, and in the first two months alone, stored more than two million
document pages and replicated more than 700,000 images per day using Nexsan's
Assureon(R) product and embedded AutoMAID(TM) (Automatic Massive Array of Idle
Disks). The
benefits from Nexsan's green storage solutions exceeded Alpine Bank's original
expectations of energy savings.

Alpine Bank, with $2 billion in assets and 36 branches throughout western
and
southwestern Colorado, serves over 100,000 customers and is opening an
average of three new branches per year. A pioneer in 'green banking,' including
a
move toward becoming a paperless institution, Alpine Bank, which received ISO
14001 Certification in 2006, promotes conservation among its members and
encourages communities and local businesses to join in its efforts in
sustaining the environment. The Green Team at Alpine Bank oversees
environmental management systems that help measure energy usage, water
consumption and waste production.

With AutoMAID, Alpine selects various levels of desired energy savings based
on
specific applications and the frequency of users' demands for the associated
data. When a user-selected threshold is met, disk drives are transparently
placed into an idle state, vastly reducing power and cooling costs without
degradation in performance. All Nexsan products come equipped with AutoMAID
functionality at no additional cost. Alpine is expected to save between 20
and 60 percent in power usage and costs through its use of Assureon with
AutoMAID.

To meet its financial and environmental data storage needs, Alpine Bank
turned
to technology partner Jack Henry & Associates, a leading provider of
integrated computer systems for financial services organizations. Jack Henry
recommended Nexsan Assureon because it easily integrated with Jack Henry's
Synergy(TM) Enterprise Content Management (ECM) product that was already
installed at Alpine Bank. Jack Henry and Nexsan sell these products as a single,
integrated solution.

"It was the smoothest installation I have ever experienced," said Don
Litton,
Network Engineer at Alpine Bank.

Chris Brown, Alpine Bank's Vice President of Information Technology,
concurred, "We
are thrilled with the initial results and plan to further leverage our
investment
by incorporating additional storage elements such as e-mail archiving. Nexsan
and Jack Henry have provided us with an extremely cost-effective, reliable
and green approach to long-term disk storage."

"Everyone these days says they provide green storage," said Nexsan's
SeniorVice President of Marketing, Bob Woolery. "The real issue is providing
green
storage without compromising performance, something our AutoMAID technology has
been proven to do in rigorous real-world environments. We're committed to
providing our customers with the best mix of high-performance, green products at
the right
price. With high-performance green solutions in use in a wide variety of
vertical markets, we continue to meet these goals."

Nexsan Assureon is a secure, intelligent archive storage solution that
combines advanced encryption with content addressed storage, information
life-cycle
management (ILM) technology, and other patent-pending security features into a
single, fully integrated disk-based storage solution. Assureon was designed from
the ground up to address the long-term storage and management of fixed content
and compliance information, making it ideal for organizations such as financial
institutions that want to continually improve business practices and proactively
comply with numerous agency regulations.

Synergy is the modular ECM solution marketed to the more than 1,700 banks
supported by Jack Henry Banking(TM) and the more than 650 credit unions
supported by Jack Henry & Associates Symitar(TM) division. Synergy is sold
outside the company's core client-base through its ProfitStars(R) brand.

About Alpine Bank

Locally owned and operated, Alpine Bank has been a part of the Western Slope
of
Colorado for over 30 years. With 32 convenient locations, we serve over 100,000
customers with retail, business, trust, asset management, mortgage and
electronic
banking services.

About Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: JKHY) is a leading provider of
computer systems and ATM/debit card/ACH transaction processing services
primarily
for financial services organizations. Its technology solutions serve more than
8,700 customers nationwide, and are marketed and supported through three primary
brands. Jack Henry Banking supports banks ranging from de novo to mid-tier
institutions with information processing solutions. Symitar is the leading
provider
of information processing solutions for credit unions of all sizes. ProfitStars
provides highly specialized products and services that enable financial
institutions of every asset size and charter, and diverse corporate entities
to mitigate and control risks, optimize revenue and growth opportunities, and
containcosts. Additional information is available at www.jackhenry.com.

About Nexsan Corporation

Nexsan Corporation is a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term
storage
systems. Nexsan delivers secure storage appliances and modular,
capacity-optimized
disk-storage systems for a broad range of applications including fixed content
storage
and archiving, e-mail, medical imaging, compliance and litigation support,
disk-based backup, digital video security, and rich media. Nexsan's solutions
are the choice of small and medium-sized companies as well as large global
enterprises and major government agencies around the world that are seeking
cost-correct,high-density storage solutions. Founded in 1999 and based in
Thousand, Oaks,
Calif., Nexsan sells its products exclusively through a select global network of
VARs, OEMs and system integrators. For more information, please see the
company's Web site at www.nexsan.com.

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