The Silk Platform is designed to optimize database workloads by virtualizing native cloud resources to offload and accelerate applications. Since Silk presents as if we are volumes, we are often compared to native data storage options.
My introduction to Silk came over 2 ½ years ago, when one of the account leads I work with called me up and asked me if I would take a look at this software called Silk. He had a feeling he had stumbled across something important, but he wanted my technical opinion. The customer had been using it at another cloud vendor with some impressive results and he needed to know if Silk Technologies could really do what it was saying: giving fast performance for Oracle databases on the public cloud. I was highly skeptical of the numbers that were being displayed on the website, so I signed up to download a performance white paper on Silk’s website. I received a direct email back from Silk’s VP of Strategic Partnerships, Chris Buckel, and he excitedly explained what Silk was and how it could change what I was doing with high IO Oracle workloads on Azure.