# Bouchard Insurance Averts IT Disaster with Expedient's Push Button DR

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# Bouchard Insurance Averts IT Disaster with Expedient's Push Button DR

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In September 2017, with Category 5 Hurricane Irma bearing down on its headquarters in Clearwater, Florida, Bouchard Insurance’s Director of Information Technology made a critical decision to preemptively failover his entire network to an Expedient backup site over 1,000 miles away – ensuring total business continuity and the safety and security of Bouchard employees, and averting an IT disaster. Watch as Brian Polak, Bouchard’s Director of IT, discusses the days leading up to Hurricane Irma and Polak’s confidence in preemptive failover thanks to Expedient’s Push Button DR solution

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