A blog about my adventures in IT
In the last post, we talked about disaster recovery and business continuity as a social contract, not a pretty Visio diagram: getting the right people to agree on what “good” looks like before anything...
We’ve all seen the shiny disaster recovery and business continuity decks. Neat tiers. Arrows between regions. RPO/RTO numbers in big bold fonts. Maybe a sprinkle of buzzwords around immutable backups, zero trust, or AI-driven...
AI is everywhere. It’s in your diagramming tools, your IDE, your browser, your slide decks – even in your stickiest procrastination apps. It’s tempting to treat it as a kind of vibes engine: ask...
We’ve all seen the glossy DR diagrams. Colour‑coded tiers, neat arrows flowing between regions, “RTO 15 mins” stuck in bold above some perfectly aligned icons. It all looks calm and controlled – until the...
Setting the scene Think of the Veeam 100 Summit as the ultimate meetup for Veeam Vanguards, Veeam Legends, Veeam MVPs, and select Veeam User Group leaders, all tuning in to hear directly from Veeam’s...
The Journey Begins Let’s hop in the time machine and zip back to late 2013 – picture it: I’m the Support Services Manager for a buzzing VMware-focused IT solutions provider in the rainy U.K....
Background Entra ID or the artist formerly known as Azure AD, is one of those workloads that few backup vendors seem to support, but there are many requests from people to protect it. This...
Background This one came about as I just built a new PC for the kids to do their homework on. I’m waiting for the inevitable “Daaaaad, the computer is broken” conversation! Rather than having...
Background AI is one of the current buzzwords in the IT industry, with the growth of LLMs (Large Language Models) such as GPT and image creation utilising models like DALL-E or Midjourney, it is...
The opener You know, I would normally write these blog posts with a, hey this session looks cool, or can’t wait to see this or whatever. But this one is different. The overall theme...
Background This was a new one for me. I could not log in to my blog to make updates. You may have seen a page similar to this when logging into the WordPress admin...
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