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Total Cost of Ownership for SQL Databases in the Cloud

Silk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:25:41 GMT

Companies are hosting mission-critical applications in the cloud to take advantage of on-demand resources, availability, and elasticity. But hosting SQL databases in the cloud can come with sticker shock if workloads have high I/O performance requirements and end up overprovisioned.

The Silk Platform and Retail Workloads on the Cloud

Silk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:25:24 GMT

More consumers are shopping online than ever, and competition is fiercer than ever. New AI and machine learning capabilities let retailers personalize the shopping experience — but personalization creates vast amounts of data that applications must crunch and analyze quickly.

Silk for Oracle: The Silk Road from On-Prem to Azure

Silk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:25:05 GMT

Oracle has been a leader in the database world for decades. As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption, they face the challenge of moving mission-critical Oracle workloads — including Exadata — from on-prem to the public cloud without sacrificing performance.

Top 3 Tips To Keep Up Cloud Momentum Post-Migration

Silk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:24:50 GMT

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 refactor versus lift-and-shift. But it's important to make sure that strategy continues to evolve, whether that means boosting cloud speeds, reducing cloud spend, or rethinking how workloads originally landed in the cloud.

Accelerate Dev/Test Velocity with Silk

Silk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:24:19 GMT

Instant, production-accurate data copies - faster releases, lower costs

Slow, manual data provisioning shouldn’t hold back your development and testing teams. With Silk’s software-defined cloud storage platform and Silk Echo, you can instantly create production-accurate database copies without adding storage costs or performance overhead. Eliminate long waits, reduce defects, and keep environments up to date — all while cutting your cloud spend. This solution brief dives deep into how Silk helps you speed up development cycles, improve software quality, and manage costs more effectively.

Provision in minutes, not days: Instantly spin up accurate, writable test data environments on demand.
Cut cloud costs by up to 50%: Zero-footprint snapshots and clones eliminate duplicate storage costs.
Boost quality and speed: Fresh, realistic data earlier in the cycle reduces rework and accelerates releases.

See How Silk Outperforms Azure NetApp Files

Silk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:24:04 GMT

Maximize Your Database Potential with Silk Software-Defined Cloud Storage

When it comes to optimizing cloud storage for enterprise databases, performance, cost efficiency, and scalability are critical. This one-pager provides a detailed comparison of Silk and Azure NetApp Files (ANF), helping you make an informed decision for your cloud strategy. Learn how Silk delivers unmatched speed, flexibility, and cost savings, redefining cloud storage for mission-critical workloads.

Unmatched Performance: Discover how Silk delivers up to 6X faster throughput compared to ANF, ensuring sub-millisecond latency for mission-critical applications.
Significant Cost Savings: Learn how Silk reduces storage expenses by up to 76% with advanced features like zero-footprint snapshots and writable thin copies.
Future-Ready Scalability: See how Silk’s software-defined architecture scales seamlessly with your workload demands, providing flexibility for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Silk Copy Data Management

Silk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:23:48 GMT

Maximize Data Efficiency and Minimize Cloud Costs

Unlock the full potential of your cloud data with Silk’s Copy Data Management. Whether you need rapid clones for dev/test, AI/ML, or disaster recovery, Silk delivers instant, zero-footprint copies without costly storage overhead. Reduce cloud spend, accelerate time-to-market, and enable real-time collaboration — all with unmatched scalability, performance, and efficiency.

Create Instant, Zero-Footprint Clones — Spin up production-grade data copies in seconds without additional storage.
Optimize Cloud Spend — Reduce storage costs with advanced compression, deduplication, and thin provisioning.
Accelerate Time-to-Market — Eliminate bottlenecks in dev/test and analytics with rapid data provisioning and refreshes.

Silk Architecture for Azure

Silk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:23:31 GMT

Silk and Insurance Workloads on the Cloud

Silk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:23:10 GMT

Unlock Performance and Agility for Insurance Applications in the Cloud

To stay competitive, insurance companies are modernizing legacy systems, launching AI-driven services, and accelerating cloud initiatives. But moving performance-sensitive applications like underwriting platforms, claims systems, and data analytics tools to the cloud can be challenging. This solution brief explains how Silk empowers insurers to overcome these hurdles and achieve faster, more secure, and more cost-effective cloud performance. In this solution brief, you’ll discover how Silk helps insurers:

Accelerate digital transformation by seamlessly migrating core applications without refactoring
Maximize performance for data-intensive workloads like analytics, pricing engines, and fraud detection
Maintain data security and compliance with built-in encryption, zero trust architecture, and high availability

How Sentara Health is Scaling AI In Healthcare

Silk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:22:39 GMT