The AI Infrastructure Decision Your Board Will Eventually Question
By Howard Oliver, MBA Hyperscalers are not the enemy. Unvalidated dependency is. For larger midmarket companies, the AI path often looks practical at first. Use the available cloud platform. Launch the pilot. Connect the data. Prove the use case. Move fast. On paper, that feels like progress. Then the pilot becomes important. That is when […]
Why Fortune’s Article on AI Compute Costs Matters to Mid-Sized Organizations
By Howard Oliver, MBA AI Compute Is Becoming an Executive Cost Issue The Fortune article, “The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers,” lands directly on the issue Strates has been warning about: AI is not just a […]
The Rise of the Private Brain
Why today’s AI news matters more than it looks By Howard Oliver, MBA CEO and Founder, Strates Infrastructure Consortium Inc. Today we saw something important. Mistral introduced Forge today (March 18, 2026), a platform designed to help enterprises move beyond generic AI systems by enabling them to train and adapt models on their proprietary […]