Private AI on Oracle OCI: How to Stop Sending Company Data to Public LLMs

There is something that bothers me every time I see a company adopting AI tools without thinking too much about what happens to their data. You open ChatGPT, you paste some internal document, you ask for a summary or a rewrite, and that's it. The data left the building. Where it goes, who reads it, if it is used to train future models; these are questions that most people don't ask until it becomes a problem. I work a lot…

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Maximizing Storage I/O Performance for Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Oracle OCI IaaS.

Running Microsoft SQL Server on Oracle OCI IaaS can deliver excellent performance, but only if the storage layer is designed and validated correctly. Too often, performance issues are attributed to the database engine while the real bottleneck sits in an improperly configured or untested storage setup. In this article, I walk through a storage configuration specifically designed for SQL Server workloads on Oracle OCI, focusing on block volume layout, attachment type, and I/O characteristics. The setup is not theoretical: it…

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