Blog: AI Strategy and Infrastructure
Practical writing on AI strategy, private AI architecture, and IT infrastructure, from 28 years of hands-on experience.
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Private AI infrastructure ·
Local AI vs Cloud GPUs vs Subscriptions: What's Worth Paying For in 2026
How local LLMs, Hugging Face and Docker fit together, what a GPU upgrade buys, Ubuntu versus Hyper-V, hourly GPU rental, and which AI subscriptions and tools are worth paying for.
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Virtualization and infrastructure ·
Moving Off VMware: Hyper-V vs Proxmox for Small Business
How to choose between Hyper-V and Proxmox VE when leaving VMware, and a migration sequence that keeps rollback available: inventory, backups, waves, cutover.
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Private AI infrastructure ·
Private RAG for Regulated Industries: Architecture and Security Guide
How to design a private retrieval-augmented generation system for law, healthcare, and finance: architecture, access control, vector store security, and audit logging.
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Private AI infrastructure ·
Secure Local LLM Deployment: Enterprise Hardening Guide
Network isolation, model supply-chain checks, authentication, logging, and OS hardening for on-premises AI servers.
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AI strategy ·
AI Transformation Advisor or Fractional CTO? How to Choose
What each role does, how they differ, and a simple way to decide which one your organization needs.
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What this blog covers
Each article answers a question that IT leaders and business owners ask when they plan private AI or modernize their infrastructure. The writing draws on 28 years of hands-on work with Windows Server, Active Directory, virtualization, and networking, plus current work building local AI systems.
Private AI architecture. Running large language models on your own hardware, building private retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over internal documents, hardening both for regulated work in law, healthcare, and finance, and choosing hardware, cloud GPUs, and subscriptions.
Infrastructure. Virtualization choices after VMware, Hyper-V and Proxmox, Windows Server and Active Directory automation, backups, and resilience.
Technology leadership. When to bring in an AI transformation advisor, a fractional CTO, or both.
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