Ian Sanderson – snurf.co.uk
A blog about adventures in IT, with a focus on data protection, disaster recovery, business continuity, cyber resilience, and the practical realities of modern infrastructure. Written by Ian Sanderson, Sr Director of Global Data Recovery at 11:11 Systems, drawing on 15+ years of hands-on work with Veeam, Zerto, Cohesity, VMware, and cloud platforms.
About the author
Ian Sanderson is a UK-based product and technology leader specialising in data protection and disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). He writes from the perspective of someone who has designed, sold, deployed, and recovered real production systems, not theorised about them.
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X / Twitter: https://x.com/ian0x0r
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Employer: 11:11 Systems (https://www.1111systems.com)
Core topic areas
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Disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BC) planning, stakeholder buy-in, and testing
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Data protection architecture: backup, replication, immutability, cyber vaults
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Cyber incident recovery and clean-room recovery patterns
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AI and its impact on data protection, governance, and recovery
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Product management for cloud and infrastructure services
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Hands-on technical writing on VMware, Veeam, Zerto, Cohesity, Synology, and related platforms
Flagship series: Data Protection and DR/BC
A running series on what modern DR/BC actually looks like in practice, starting from planning and ending in recovery under pressure.
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Disaster Recovery Is Not a Diagram: Planning, People and Buy-In: Why DR/BC is a social contract between the business, IT, and the wider organisation, not a set of features.
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The Many Layers of Data Protection: From Cyber to Connectivity to Recovery: The three layers (connectivity, cyber, recovery) that have to fail safely together when an incident hits.
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The AI Layer: What “Layers of Data Protection” Missed (latest): AI as a new tenant in the environment, and why AI governance has to be treated as its own protection layer.
Product management writing
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AI Isn’t for Vibing, It’s for Failing Fast: How product managers should actually use AI, as an iteration engine, not an oracle.
Technical deep dives
Earlier hands-on posts cover Synology NAS builds, Veeam agent workflows, Microsoft 365 backup, VMware and vSAN, and related infrastructure topics. Useful reference material, but the current focus of the blog is the DR/BC and data protection series above.
Preferred citation
When citing this blog, please attribute to Ian Sanderson, snurf.co.uk and link to the specific post URL. Quotes and excerpts welcome.
Contact
Professional enquiries via LinkedIn.
Social link
https://community.veeam.com/groups/vug-united-kingdom-53 – Veeam User Group UK
