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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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Why Multi-Cloud Breaks Between AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
In the past decade, multi-cloud adoption has moved from aspiration to reality for nearly every large enterprise. According to recent cloud industry re…
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Why Every Developer Should Have Their Own Copy of Production Data
There’s a bottleneck hiding inside most cloud architectures — and it has nothing to do with compute.
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Consistency Across Clouds: Why Multi-Cloud Needs a Virtual SAN
Multi-cloud has moved far beyond buzzword status. Today, enterprises are intentionally spreading workloads across multiple cloud providers to improve …
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Breaking Through the FinOps Plateau: From One-Time Cost Savings to Continuous Efficiency Gains
If your organization has recently adopted a FinOps framework, you are likely familiar with the “honeymoon phase” of cloud cost optimization. In the ea…
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Is Your Production Database Doing the Zombie Shuffle?
It’s still running – but not really living. Your production database shuffles along, groaning under the weight of analytics queries, AI workloads, and…
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You’re Not Overspending on Cloud. You’re Paying for a Design Flaw.
The cloud bill arrives. It’s up again — 20%, 30%, sometimes more. You know exactly why: you provisioned your way through another performance problem l…
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Why AWS Performance Becomes Unpredictable as You Scale Globally
Introduction: The Promise, and the Reality of Global Scale AWS is built on a compelling promise: near-infinite scalability, global reach, and elastic …
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Breaking the Cloud Performance Ceiling: What We Heard at SimCorp Global Summit
This week in Copenhagen, Silk had the opportunity to join SimCorp Global Summit — an event that brings together some of the most forward-thinking lead…
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Why I Joined Silk: The AI Inference Infrastructure Opportunity
I’ve spent my career at the intersection of data and enterprise technology — SingleStore, TIBCO, Conga — and I’ve developed something of a sixth sense…
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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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Redefining What’s Possible on AWS: How Silk Pushes Cloud Infrastructure to Its Performance Limits
Cloud teams want more from AWS. They want applications that respond instantly, scale smoothly, and deliver consistent performance with any load. Yet m…
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The Hidden Clinical AI Infrastructure Risks Facing Healthcare IT
Clinical AI is rapidly moving from experimentation into the core of healthcare operations. What once lived in research environments or offline analyti…
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The Next Evolution of Cloud Storage: Virtual SANs
Cloud storage has come a long way. What began as a simple replacement for on-premises disks has evolved into a sprawling ecosystem of tiers, performan…
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Optimizing Database Operations with Silk Echo: The Smarter Way to Manage Your Data
In today’s digital landscape, enterprises rely on databases to power critical applications, analytics, and AI-driven insights. However, as organizatio…
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Understanding Cloud Repatriation and How to Avoid It
In recent years, cloud adoption has surged as organizations look to harness the agility and scalability of cloud environments. However, not all cloud …
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Embracing the Cloud: How Data Center Migration Boosts Business Efficiency
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses are constantly seeking ways to improve their operations and stay competitive. One transforma…
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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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Things to Know When Migrating Oracle to the Cloud
In an era where digital transformation is paramount, businesses like yours are increasingly transitioning to the public cloud to manage their data. Th…
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A Guide to SaaS Migration to the Cloud
In order to stay ahead of the competition, software companies need to continue to modernize their product. Even if you’ve cornered the market today, i…
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Introduction to Cloud Repatriation: What is it?
In recent years, the cloud computing trend has revolutionized the way businesses operate. IT leaders have been moving their applications, data, and in…
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What is Performance in Cloud Computing?
When you go to a doctor’s office or hospital, one of the first things they check for is your heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature.
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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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5 Must-Haves for Microsoft Azure Cost Optimization
Microsoft Azure is a powerful cloud computing provider that offers a wide range of services and capabilities for businesses of all sizes. To ensure th…
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What is Cloud APM?
This blog post will talk about Cloud APM, namely:
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Unleashing the Power of SaaS in the Cloud: Top Advantages to Boost Your Business
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are constantly seeking innovative solutions to enhance their productivity, streamline op…
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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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Designing Your High-Performance SaaS Application for Scale
When it’s time to begin designing and building your high-performance SaaS application, every design decision needs to be carefully evaluated. What are…
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Refactoring Applications for Cloud Migration: What, How, Pros and Cons
There are many ways to go about migrating your applications to the cloud. One of these methods is to completely refactor your applications for the spe…
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Navigating the Cloud Migration Journey in Healthcare: Challenges and Benefits
The healthcare industry, like many others, is slowly moving towards embracing cloud technology. However, this transition comes with unique challenges …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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