Silk’s Impact on Customers’ Cloud Cost Efficiency

Revolutionizing Cost Efficiency in the Cloud

In the challenging economic landscape of 2025, organizations are under immense pressure to rationalize spending and optimize costs. Even as software budgets are expected to increase and cloud adoption continues to rise, the demand for transparent cost savings and financial justification in purchasing has become paramount. Silk stands at the forefront of this transformation, empowering enterprises to free significant cloud spend for new innovation and growth while enhancing performance and operational efficiency.

Improving Value in the Cloud

Silk consistently delivers value to its customers by offering increased performance and ease of data management while enabling customers to shrink the cost of their cloud environments. Silk customers have reported cutting millions off their cloud bills, thanks to the platform’s resilient architecture and streamlined data access.

Remarkable Customer Results

Looking at Silk’s customers at the start of January 2025, the impact of Silk’s solutions is clear:

• Petabytes Provisioned: 13.1 PB
• Petabytes of Space Required: 2.8 PB – a 79% reduction in space with Silk’s data reduction and Copy Data Management features
• Performance Improvement: Up to 10x better
• Cloud Savings: 30% to 50%

These results translate into substantial savings and improved efficiency for organizations, allowing them to allocate resources more effectively and drive innovation, reinvesting their saved cloud spend in areas like Artificial Intelligence (AI), which they are also using Silk to power.

Unmatched Performance at a Fraction of the Cost

Silk’s cost-performance impact is rooted in our ability to deliver top performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional cloud storage solutions. When we compare actual Silk customer spend to a generic instance (2 TiB, 1 GB/s, 50K IOPS) of a high-performance cloud storage solution like Azure Ultra Disk and Google Cloud Extreme Persistent Disk, Silk offers 2.6 to 17x higher performance while being:

• 79% cheaper than Azure Ultra Disk
• 94% cheaper than Google Cloud Extreme Persistent Disk

Driving Cost Efficiency Across the Cloud Stack

Silk’s comprehensive approach to cost efficiency extends across the entire cloud stack, benefiting applications, storage, compute  , and databases. Key features contributing to these savings include:

• Data Reduction: Silk customers require 60% less space for written data
• Thin Provisioning: Silk customers eliminate 32% unused provisioned capacity
• Thin Views and Clones: Silk customers with data copies cut out 43% additional provisioned capacity
• Zero-Footprint Snapshots: Silk customers using snapshots eliminated another up to 64% of required space
• Improved Host Performance: Some Silk customers lowered their host costs by 26% to 77%, as Silk enabled them to reduce their host vCPUs by 25% to 50%
• Database License Optimization: Silk helped some customers avoid expanding the number of database licenses required when moving to the cloud, saving up to 29% of database license cost.

By optimizing data access and reducing unnecessary capacity, Silk enables businesses to achieve significant operational improvements and cost savings.

Real-World Benefits and Business Value

Silk’s impact is not just theoretical; it is backed by real-world customer examples. For instance, a Fortune 500 healthcare company lowered its host VM costs by over $600K per year by leveraging Silk’s performance scalability and economies of scale. Another Fortune 500 customer in retail cut 33 percent  of provisioned space and then shrunk the remaining data by 71 percent, significantly lowering their cloud infrastructure costs. These efficiency gains accompany operational benefits that increased and accelerated access to data for these customers, driving faster development cycles and more agile adoption of new technologies like AI. These tangible benefits underscore Silk’s commitment to delivering value and driving business success.

Conclusion

In 2025, cost-performance is central to every cloud initiative. Silk’s innovative solutions are transforming the way organizations manage their cloud infrastructure, enabling applications to run faster and improving access to data while significantly reducing cloud costs. As enterprises navigate the complexities of the modern economic environment, Silk stands as a trusted partner, delivering unparalleled savings and operational excellence.