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

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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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Aug 17, 2026
Powering the Future of AI Workloads
As the vibrant energy of Microsoft Ignite 2024 filled the halls of Chicago’s McCormick Place, the excitement about the future of AI was palpable. SQL …
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Aug 17, 2026
Strategies for Reducing Cloud Costs
Best Practices for Reducing Cloud Spend Are you considering migrating your applications to the cloud to simplify your data management? While the publi…
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Aug 10, 2026
AI Inference is Reshaping Enterprise Architecture – Are You Ready?
AI is no longer confined to innovation labs or experimental chatbots. It’s showing up everywhere: in financial applications, healthcare systems, suppl…
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May 21, 2026
The Next Cloud Performance Challenge: Enterprise Applications, AI, and the Limits of Native Cloud Storage
For years, the promise of cloud migration has centered on agility, scalability, and cost efficiency. Enterprises were told they could move faster, mod…
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Jan 29, 2026
AI Inference on Live Production Data: Why Inference Latency Breaks Real-Time AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) inference is where artificial intelligence delivers real business impact – or quietly fails. As AI systems move from expe…
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Jan 25, 2024
Unlocking the Secrets of High-Speed Read Transactions in Database Platforms
In the Age of AI, where data is the new oil, the ability to access information swiftly and reliably is the bedrock upon which businesses build their c…
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May 5, 2023
Moving Finance Operations From On-Premise to the Cloud
As technology continues to evolve, more and more businesses are moving their operations to the cloud. This includes financial institutions, such as ba…
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Mar 29, 2023
What is Thin Provisioning and Should You Utilize It?
Since the advent of computing, humans have generated a lot of data. So much data that we are now living in what is being hailed as the Zettabyte Era –…
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