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Cloud Cost Control
With Predictable Performance

Silk reduces cloud overspend by decoupling performance from capacity so you can meet SLAs without overbuilding infrastructure

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Performance Variability Drives Overspend

Cloud overspend rarely comes from waste – it comes from protecting SLAs. As environments scale and applications share infrastructure, performance becomes unpredictable. To prevent latency spikes and outages, teams oversize compute, pay for premium storage tiers, over-license, and duplicate data for protection.  

Silk eliminates the root cause: performance tied to worst-case capacity planning. As a software-defined SAN and cloud acceleration layer, Silk delivers performance dynamically based on real demand – not static sizing assumptions – so infrastructure can be purchased for actual usage instead of peak insurance.  

What Changes With Silk

When performance is no longer tied to capacity: 

  • Compute VMs are sized for compute — not I/O insurance 
  • Storage is purchased for capacity — not peak throughput 
  • Application licenses align to real usage 
  • Fewer environments are required to protect SLAs 

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Buy Storage for Capacity, Not Peak Performance

Traditional cloud architectures force teams to purchase premium storage tiers to guarantee throughput. Silk decouples performance from volume size and tiering, allowing storage to be selected for capacity requirements instead of worst-case demand. 

Without Silk

With Silk

Reduce Application Licensing Costs

When performance bottlenecks drive scaling decisions, application cores are often added for I/O rather than actual growth. Silk stabilizes performance so licensing aligns with real utilization instead of defensive overprovisioning.

Increase Infrastructure Utilization

By pooling and governing performance dynamically, Silk enables multiple applications to safely share infrastructure. Higher utilization reduces the need for isolated environments and excess capacity. 

Eliminate Copy-Driven Cost Growth

Backup, snapshot, and replication strategies often multiply storage consumption. Silk’s space-efficient snapshots and thin provisioning reduce data duplication and lower long-term storage spend. 

Control Costs as Workloads Scale

As environments mature and AI, analytics, and transactional applications expand, Silk ensures cost growth aligns with business demand – not infrastructure inefficiencies – enabling sustainable cloud economics. 

Proven Cost Reduction in Production

25:1
Data reduction through thin provisioning and snapshots
50%
Reduction in required vCPUs for compute VMs
0
Footprint snapshots at creation
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Control Cloud Costs by Design

Cloud cost control doesn’t come from tuning harder or negotiating better pricing. It comes from removing performance-driven overspend. Silk makes cloud cost control an architectural outcome — not a tradeoff.

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