Needham, MA – January 1, 2019 – A bold new company has entered the cloud data space: Silk, a Software-Defined Cloud Storage company built to radically improve the performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of enterprise workloads in the cloud.
At the helm of Silk is CEO Dani Golan, a proven entrepreneur with a track record of founding and scaling successful startups in the cloud storage space. Golan brings deep insight into the evolving needs of cloud-first organizations and a clear vision for enabling digital transformation at scale.
“Our mission is simple,” said Golan. “We want to empower enterprises to unlock the full value of their cloud investments. Silk gives them the speed, elasticity, and control they need—without sacrificing performance or blowing the budget. We’re making the cloud work the way it should.”
As more businesses launch in the cloud, many encounter significant hurdles – from performance bottlenecks to runaway costs. Silk was purpose-built to overcome these challenges with a smart, adaptable platform that seamlessly integrates into customers’ cloud environments.
Silk sits between an organization’s application stack and its cloud data infrastructure. With advanced capabilities like real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and zero-footprint snapshots, Silk enables cloud environments to run with greater agility and efficiency. Customers benefit from up to 10x faster performance at 30% lower cost compared to native cloud alone.
Silk fuels AI innovation by enabling real-time access to production data in the cloud. Seamlessly integrating high-performance cloud storage into AI workflows, Silk empowers organizations to enhance innovation while maintaining performance, reliability, and control over trusted enterprise data. Silk’s agile data delivery eliminates the need to copy production data, enhancing flexibility and enabling product data to be leveraged for Generative AI.
Back by over 20 technology patents, Silk helps customers unlock the full potential of the public cloud with speed and ease. Silk is headquartered outside of Boston, MA.
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