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

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Sep 18, 2026
Assessing Your Application’s Cloud Readiness: A Step-by-Step Guide
As cloud computing continues to dominate the tech landscape, businesses are increasingly looking to migrate their applications to the cloud. But befor…
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Sep 18, 2026
Why Performance Becomes the Bottleneck in AWS at Scale
Executive Summary This post covers two patterns every AWS platform team eventually encounters, where AWS’s defaults end, and what deliberate architect…
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Sep 18, 2026
Copy That: How Silk Revolutionizes Dev/Test Efficiency
For CTOs, CIOs, and data architects, the challenge of balancing development velocity with infrastructure costs has never been more critical. As organi…
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Sep 18, 2026
Optimizing Data Strategy for AI and Analytics in Oracle ADW: Reducing AI Cloud Storage Costs with Silk
The Growing Challenge of Data Duplication in AI and Analytics As enterprises increasingly adopt AI-driven analytics, the demand for efficient data acc…
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Sep 18, 2026
The Hidden Cost of Agentic AI: The Production Database Bottleneck
The rise of Agentic AI is transforming the analytics landscape, but it comes with an often-overlooked challenge: database strain. Traditionally, opera…
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Sep 18, 2026
What is Overprovisioning and How Does It Happen?
Determining the number of cloud resources that your organization needs is a balancing act. On the one hand, if you don’t budget for enough, you’ll fin…
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Sep 18, 2026
Never Price a Cloud By Its Cover
The Silk Platform is designed to optimize database workloads by virtualizing native cloud resources to offload and accelerate applications. Since Silk…
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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
Unlock AI Innovation By Boosting Existing Apps with Risk-Free Vector Search
The reason I am excited about the latest genAI and vector search developments is that you can “plug in” these new technologies into your existing appl…
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Sep 18, 2026
Traditional vs. Software-Defined Cloud Storage: What’s the Difference?
As organizations generate and store more data than ever before, choosing the right storage solution has become critical. Two common options are tradit…
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