Ian Sanderson

Ian Sanderson Blog

27th February 2026

Disaster Recovery Is Not a Diagram: Planning, People and Buy-In

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...

Product Management

19th February 2026

AI isn’t for vibing – it’s for failing fast

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...

Whats that about then?

8th February 2026

Inside a Real Disaster Recovery Day: What Actually Happens When Everything Breaks

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...

Veeam

5th November 2025

Veeam 100 Summit 2025

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...

Veeam

18th September 2025

Ten years of Veeam community

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....

Veeam

25th August 2024

Microsoft Entra ID backup with Veeam – BETA preview

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...

Veeam

19th May 2024

Immutable backups with Veeam Agent for Windows and Object Storage

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...

Excalidraw

18th May 2024

AI – It is everywhere, even in Excalidraw!

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...

Veeam

18th May 2024

VeeamON 2024 thoughts

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...

Wordpress

27th April 2024

[FIX] Jetpack has locked your site’s login page

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...

Veeam

29th April 2022

VeeamON 2022 – Session Explorer

VeeamON 2022 – May 16-19 For those of you not familiar with the VeeamON conference, it is Veeam software’s annual data protection summit where they showcase new products and features alongside their industry peers...

Ian Sanderson

Ian Sanderson Blog

Disaster Recovery Is Not a Diagram: Planning, People and Buy-In

AI isn’t for vibing – it’s for failing fast

Inside a Real Disaster Recovery Day: What Actually Happens When Everything Breaks

Veeam 100 Summit 2025

Ten years of Veeam community

Microsoft Entra ID backup with Veeam – BETA preview

Immutable backups with Veeam Agent for Windows and Object Storage

AI – It is everywhere, even in Excalidraw!

VeeamON 2024 thoughts

[FIX] Jetpack has locked your site’s login page

VeeamON 2022 – Session Explorer

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