As mission-critical applications scale on Google Cloud, performance becomes unpredictable under concurrent access and shared data usage. To compensate, teams isolate workloads, duplicate data, or oversize infrastructure — driving up cost and operational complexity without solving the root problem. Silk addresses this at the data layer. As an adaptive, software-defined SAN, Silk dynamically governs performance beneath applications, preventing contention and stabilizing latency as databases, analytics, and AI workloads operate on shared data. The result is consistent, predictable performance at scale — without rearchitecting applications or overprovisioning infrastructure.