Silk

Silk provides a Cloud Database as a Service (DBaaS) that merges the flexibility of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with the user-friendliness of Platform as a Service (PaaS), along with 24/7/365 expert DBA support for maintenance and troubleshooting. Silk’s platform supports multiple deployment options, including Silk on Virtual Machines (VMs) and Silk on Microsoft Azure Premium v2, allowing deployment of any database on any major cloud, with any VM shape, and any database version and patch. The platform offers robust data management capabilities, such as zero-footprint instant extracts and AI/ML pipeline support, and provides up to 10x performance improvement with sub-millisecond latency. Silk’s architecture includes features like real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and instantaneous zero-footprint snapshots, supporting high availability and disaster recovery across zones, regions, and clouds. Designed to optimize cloud costs by reducing overprovisioning and minimizing cloud resource expenditure, Silk’s platform is validated by Epic for healthcare workloads, enabling the migration of complex medical workloads to the cloud. It supports a variety of industries including finance, healthcare, insurance, and retail, offering solutions for performance optimization, cost reduction, data lifecycle management, and resiliency. Silk partners with leading technology companies like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services to deliver high-performance cloud solutions. The platform includes enterprise data services like deduplication, compression, and zero elimination to optimize data efficiency, and provides a shared multi-tenant datastore that uses pooled resources for any workload, improving efficiency and performance.