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Total Cost of Ownership for SQL Databases in the Cloud
Companies are hosting mission-critical applications in the cloud to take advantage of on-demand resources, availability, and elasticity. But hosting S…
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The Silk Platform and Retail Workloads on the Cloud
More consumers are shopping online than ever, and competition is fiercer than ever. New AI and machine learning capabilities let retailers personalize…
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Silk for Oracle: The Silk Road from On-Prem to Azure
Oracle has been a leader in the database world for decades. As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption, they face the challenge of moving mission-critic…
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Top 3 Tips To Keep Up Cloud Momentum Post-Migration
You've had your cloud strategy for a while now, and it served its purpose — getting on-prem workloads into the cloud, or helping you decide what to re…
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Accelerate Dev/Test Velocity with Silk
Instant, production-accurate data copies - faster releases, lower costs Slow, manual data provisioning shouldn’t hold back your development and testin…
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See How Silk Outperforms Azure NetApp Files
Maximize Your Database Potential with Silk Software-Defined Cloud Storage When it comes to optimizing cloud storage for enterprise databases, performa…
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Silk Copy Data Management
Maximize Data Efficiency and Minimize Cloud Costs Unlock the full potential of your cloud data with Silk’s Copy Data Management. Whether you need rapi…
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Silk Architecture for Azure
Go under the hood to see how the Silk platform powers your Azure cloud resources for 10x faster performance.
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Silk and Insurance Workloads on the Cloud
Unlock Performance and Agility for Insurance Applications in the Cloud To stay competitive, insurance companies are modernizing legacy systems, launch…
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How Sentara Health is Scaling AI In Healthcare
What does it actually take to scale AI in healthcare? At ViVE, Jeff Thomas (SVP & CTO at Sentara Health) shares their approach to AI, cloud, and data.
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Silk Cost Use Case Guide
What’s Inside This Guide This comprehensive guide explores how Silk’s advanced software-defined cloud storage solutions help businesses optimize costs…
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Silk on Microsoft Azure
Silk’s cloud acceleration layer eliminates performance variability — so you can scale with confidence, not cost. Mission-critical workloads on Azure d…
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AI-Readiness Checklist
Unlocking AI's Full Potential This infographic provides a comprehensive checklist to help organizations assess and enhance their readiness for AI adop…
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Silk Customer Support & Success
A partnership designed to keep your mission-critical workloads performing at their peak—every day, at every stage of your cloud journey. Silk’s Custom…
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Silk for SaaS Providers
Silk makes it possible to migrate your database-backed application to the cloud — with the speed, scalability, and resiliency your customers expect. C…
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Silk and Retail on the Cloud
Drive Fast, Frictionless Retail Experiences in the Cloud Today’s retailers need to deliver seamless, personalized customer experiences - both in-store…
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Silk and Healthcare on the Cloud
Modernize Healthcare IT Without Disrupting Patient Care Healthcare organizations are under pressure to modernize infrastructure, adopt AI/ML, and migr…
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Silk on AWS
Eliminate performance variability and overprovisioning while running your most important workloads on AWS. Mission-critical applications often struggl…
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Silk AI Enablement: High-Performance Vector Databases
Supercharge Your AI Workflows with Silk Discover how Silk’s high-performance software-defined cloud storage platform optimizes vector databases for th…
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Using the Cloud to Improve Patient Experience in Healthcare
Faster, Safer AI and EHR Performance in the Cloud Healthcare organizations are embracing the cloud to improve performance, support AI/ML innovation, a…
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Silk AI Enablement: Microsoft SQL Server Retrieval Augmented Generation
Elevate Your SQL Workflows with AI-Driven Precision Unlock the potential of your SQL Server databases with Silk’s high-performance software-defined cl…
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Silk AI Enablement: Training Workloads on Azure
Supercharge Your AI Training Workloads on Azure with Silk Discover how Silk’s high-performance software-defined cloud storage platform revolutionizes …
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Mission-Critical Cloud Performance Savings
Stop Paying for Peak — Start Running Right-Sized Cloud Infrastructure Cloud shouldn’t mean overprovisioning, performance risk, or unpredictable recove…
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Silk for NICE Actimize on Microsoft Azure
Migrate NICE Actimize to Azure — Faster, Smarter, and More Cost-Efficient with Silk Migrating NICE Actimize from Oracle Exadata to Microsoft Azure doe…
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The Silk Architecture Whitepaper
What's the secret behind our data platform? Find out how Silk offers flexibility and high performance through its cloud-agnostic platform.
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Supporting AI Inference Operations in PTC Windchill+ with Silk
Learn how PTC uses Silk's high-performance cloud infrastructure to power real-time AI inference in Windchill+, accelerating innovation and reducing ri…
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Security and Data Encryption with Silk on Azure
Discover how Silk enhances Microsoft Azure's native encryption to protect data at rest and in transit.
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Accelerate Real-Time AI Inference in Azure with Silk + Azure Boost
Discover how Azure IaaS, Azure Boost, and Silk deliver ultra-low latency, high throughput AI inference at enterprise scale. Download the joint paper
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Silk and Financial Services in the Cloud
Accelerate Financial Services in the Cloud — Without Compromise Financial institutions are embracing the cloud to improve agility, power real-time dec…
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Real-Time AI Inference at Enterprise Scale
Run AI Inference on Live Data — Without Breaking Production As AI pilots move into production, many organizations discover their infrastructure can’t …
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Silk Protect Data Sheet
Discover how Silk Protect helps enterprises prepare for attacks and restore TB-scale databases instantly with continuous snapshot protection and thin-…
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Zero-Footprint Snapshots on the Cloud with Silk
Accelerate Cloud Operations with Instant, Impact-Free Snapshots Traditional snapshot technology can be slow, resource-intensive, and disruptive—especi…
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How to Deliver Predictable Application Performance in the Cloud
This practical buyers' guide helps architects and engineers reduce cost, eliminate variability, and meet SLAs.
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The Cost-Performance Conundrum
Explore the strategies and technologies to help achieve the balance between cost and performance in the cloud.
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Maximizing Efficiency in Data-Driven Healthcare
Discover how healthcare organizations can make sense and improve the efficiency of their data
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Building and Optimizing High-Performance SaaS Applications
This guide provides a comprehensive view of the architectural considerations and optimization strategies for building high-performance SaaS applicatio…
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Unlock Real-Time AI Inference Without Risking Your Production Systems
Learn how to safely enable real-time AI inference on live, governed relational data without risking production performance.
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Leveraging AI: How Leading Organizations Achieve Success with Silk
Discover how leading industry players are using Silk and Microsoft to leverage AI
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Transforming Insurance with Silk, Datavail, Azure, and Guidewire
This guide will show how Guidewire users in the insurance industry can successfully migrate Guidewire to the Microsoft Azure cloud with Silk and Datav…
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How To Successfully Turn Your Database-Backed Software into a SaaS Offering
Discover how to overcome roadblocks to turn your database-based software into a lucrative SaaS offering.
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The Art of Right-Sizing Your Cloud Resources
Learn how to avoid overprovisioning cloud resources and keep your budget in check.
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Don't Rip and Replace
Learn how to adopt the cloud easily for insurance
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Top 5 Cloud Storage Struggles
Discover the top cloud storage struggles enterprises have and learn the strategies to resolve them.
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The Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of Silk
Download the Forrester TEI study to see how Silk delivered 139% ROI, $6.3M NPV, payback in under 6 months, and 50% lower cloud storage costs.
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Gartner Hype Cycle for Strategic Cost Management, 2026
Silk is a Sample Vendor in Gartner's 2026 Hype Cycle for Strategic Cost Management. Download the report to rethink hybrid cloud storage economics.
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Overview of the Silk Platform
Power Your Most Demanding Cloud Databases with Silk Running business-critical databases like Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server in the cloud shouldn’t com…
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