New VDF AI Enterprise is now available on AWS Marketplace
Insights · Research · Field Notes

Enterprise AI, explained for builders and buyers.

Practical writing on governed agent orchestration, on-premise AI, compliance, and the infrastructure decisions that separate pilot projects from production platforms.

Subscribe via RSS Explore white papers
179 Articles
39 Topics
12 Featured
Close-up of high-density memory modules on computer hardware, illustrating the GPU memory footprint that quantization reduces in on-premises AI infrastructure
AI Infrastructure 6 min read

LLM Quantization for On-Premises AI: Cut GPU Cost Without Quietly Losing Accuracy

Quantization decides how many GPUs an on-premises AI platform needs. A practical guide to FP8, INT8 and 4-bit weight-only formats, and the governance around them.

#local LLM#quantization#GPU capacity
Read article
Server cabinets and overhead network cabling in an enterprise data center used for an egress-controlled on-premises AI platform
AI Infrastructure 5 min read

Egress-Controlled On-Premises AI: Prove It Runs Without Hidden Callouts

On-premises AI can still depend on external licensing, telemetry, model, update, and identity services. Build and test a default-deny egress architecture.

#on-premises AI#egress control#air-gapped AI
Read article
Rows of local server racks in a data center hosting private AI production monitoring and evaluation workloads
AI Operations 5 min read

Production Drift Monitoring for Private AI Systems

Detect input, retrieval, tool, and output-quality drift inside your own boundary with sliced baselines, local telemetry, delayed labels, and response playbooks.

#AI drift monitoring#private AI#on-premises AI
Read article
An engineer monitoring enterprise systems where transaction-safe AI agents need controlled retries, durable operation state, and compensation
AI Agents 5 min read

Transaction-Safe AI Agents: Idempotency, Compensation, and Safe Retries

AI agents that write to enterprise systems need durable operation IDs, idempotent tools, retry classification, reconciliation, and compensating actions.

#AI agent transactions#idempotency#compensating transactions
Read article
Three colleagues reviewing a request together in a modern office, representing the internal service desk workflows that on-premises AI agents support inside the enterprise security boundary
Workflow Automation 8 min read

AI Agents for Internal Service Desks: IT, HR, and Finance Requests

The internal service desk is the most proposed first AI use case and the most often misdesigned. Entitlement-aware answers, guarded write actions, employee-data governance, and metrics that are not deflection.

#workflow automation#enterprise AI agents#on-premises AI
Read article
A padlock resting on a bright surface, representing scanned enterprise documents processed by on-premises OCR and private RAG pipelines that never leave the security boundary
RAG 7 min read

Scanned Documents in Private RAG: On-Premises OCR, Layout, and Tables

Half the corpus that matters in regulated industries is image-only. How to build an on-premises document parsing stage — OCR, layout analysis, table structure, confidence routing, and page-level provenance — that private RAG can actually retrieve from.

#private RAG#on-premises AI#RAG
Read article
Dense structured cabling in a data centre, representing the infrastructure choice between sovereign cloud regions and on-premises AI platforms for regulated enterprises
Sovereign AI 7 min read

Sovereign Cloud vs On-Premises AI: What Regulated Buyers Should Evaluate

Sovereign cloud became a real product category in 2026. Here is how it compares with on-premises AI on jurisdiction, operator access, key control, disconnection, model choice, and exit — and which AI workloads each option actually fits.

#sovereign AI#data sovereignty#on-premises AI
Read article
Interactive AI requests using a protected fast lane while batch workloads queue for remaining GPU capacity in a private data center
AI Infrastructure 10 min read

GPU Admission Control for On-Premises AI Workloads

Protect interactive AI agents from batch jobs with GPU admission control: workload classes, reservations, queues, quotas, preemption, backpressure, and SLOs.

#GPU admission control#on-premises AI#AI workload scheduling
Read article
A sealed AI model artifact moving through fingerprint, inspection, and provenance checks before entering a private data center registry
AI Security 8 min read

Secure the Model Artifact Supply Chain for On-Premises AI

A practical model import pipeline for verifying provenance, scanning artifacts, testing behavior, and promoting open-weight models into on-premises production.

#AI model supply chain#model artifact security#on-premises AI
Read article
Stay ahead of enterprise AI

Turn insight into an on-prem AI roadmap.

Pair these articles with a product walkthrough to see how VDF AI handles orchestration, governance, and cost control inside your own infrastructure.

Explore the platform