As AI pilots move into production, many organizations discover their infrastructure can’t keep up. AI inference workloads create intense bursts of I/O, high read concurrency, and extreme sensitivity to latency — conditions traditional storage systems were never designed to handle. The result is unpredictable performance, rising infrastructure costs, and workarounds like replicas and ETL pipelines that introduce data lag. Silk solves this by providing a software-defined SAN built specifically to deliver live operational data to AI inference workloads at enterprise scale — without disrupting existing systems or requiring application changes.