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Insights on cloud performance, cost, and AI from the Silk team.

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Sep 18, 2026
Total Cost of Ownership for SQL Databases in the Cloud
Companies are moving their data to the cloud to innovate and take advantage of the cloud’s on-demand resources, availability, and elasticity. And ther…
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Sep 18, 2026
Cost Efficiency and Scalability: The Economics of Cloud Databases
Having the ability to do infinite scaling sounds ideal. Infinite resources also means the potential for infinite costs. With today’s data-driven appli…
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Sep 18, 2026
Cloud Performance Testing – What It Is, Benefits, Types, and Strategy
This blog will talk about cloud performance testing, specifically:
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Sep 18, 2026
Operating and Optimizing SaaS Applications
You’ve designed your system, and you’ve deployed your SaaS application. Now what? This is where your focus shifts to optimization and tuning. Even a f…
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Aug 18, 2026
Breaking Free From AWS IOPS Limits
If you’re running data-intensive workloads on AWS today, you’ve likely run into the same wall: performance comes at a price — and often an unpredictab…
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Aug 17, 2026
7 Common Challenges in Cloud Adoption
As we discussed in our previous post, statistics show that enterprises are quickly moving to adopt cloud technologies. But as you may remember, the ap…
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Aug 17, 2026
The Power of Silk on SQL Server and Oracle
For the past few weeks, we’ve been comparing the performance and power of the Silk Platform vs NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP. Using NetApp’s own public t…
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Aug 17, 2026
4 Reasons Cloud Adoption is Needed in the Healthcare Industry
The cloud is now a proven, viable solution for EHR and large healthcare systems and critical to infrastructure modernization and delivering a better e…
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Aug 17, 2026
Machine Learning with Volume Snapshots
Machine learning stands out as a thrilling breakthrough for companies aiming to extract greater knowledge and insight from their data reservoirs. The …
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Aug 17, 2026
4 Database Performance Tips When Moving Oracle Exadata Workloads to the Public Cloud
If you are migrating Oracle databases from Exadata to the public cloud, you are likely concerned about performance, availability, and scalability limi…
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