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

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Aug 18, 2026
Your CFO Will Ask for the ROI on Silk. Here It Is: 138%, $6.4M, Payback in Under 6 Months.
At some point in every infrastructure investment cycle, the conversation shifts from capability to accountability. It doesn’t matter how compelling th…
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Aug 18, 2026
Introducing the Silk Cloud Data Platform: The New Rules of the Cloud
The cloud is the best thing to happen to business in a long time.
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Aug 18, 2026
The People Driving AI Don’t Own the Systems It Overwhelms
This article originally appeared on FlashDBA
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Aug 18, 2026
A 17-Hour Database Refresh in 15 Minutes. Storage Costs Cut in Half. This Is How Silk Works.
Imagine telling your DBA team that the environment refresh they run every night — the one that takes 14 to 17 hours and bleeds into the start of the w…
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Aug 18, 2026
Why We Spent 20 Years Protecting Databases from Analytics (and Why AI Just Broke That Truce)
This article originally appeared on FlashDBA
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Aug 18, 2026
Databases Were Built for Humans – AI Agents Change the Equation
This article originally appeared on FlashDBA
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Aug 18, 2026
The Hidden Cost of Letting AI Agents Query Live Systems
This article originally appeared on FlashDBA
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Aug 18, 2026
12 Ways Silk Echo Supercharges AI and Modern Workflows
Organizations are racing to harness the transformative power of artificial intelligence. From training machine learning models to powering advanced an…
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Aug 18, 2026
When Data Performance Becomes a Patient Care Issue
For decades, healthcare IT leaders have evaluated data infrastructure through an operational lens – cost, efficiency, and compliance. Healthcare data …
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Aug 18, 2026
Why Your Cloud Bill Keeps Climbing — and What to Do About It
You migrated to the cloud with a solid plan. You sized your instances carefully, chose the right storage tiers, and followed architecture best practic…
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