# Silk

> Silk is a Needham, Massachusetts software company that sells a virtual storage layer sitting between demanding enterprise workloads and the public cloud. Born as flash-storage startup Kaminario in 2008 and rebranded in 2020, Silk now promises databases roughly 10x faster performance on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud without the overprovisioning that inflates cloud bills. Its customers - hospitals, banks and retailers - use it to run analytics and, increasingly, live AI on production data.

- **Founded:** 2008
- **Headquarters:** Needham, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Dani Golan (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** Roughly 200-500 employees per third-party data providers (not officially disclosed); teams in Needham, MA and Israel.
- **Products:** Silk Cloud Data Platform, Silk Cloud DB Virtualization Platform, Silk Echo, Silk Cloud Database as a Service (DBaaS)
- **Notable:** Recognized in Gartner's 2026 Hype Cycle for Strategic Cost Management., Reached a $1B valuation in 2017., Reinvented from hardware flash-array maker (Kaminario) to software-defined cloud storage (Silk) in 2020.

## Products & services

- **Silk Cloud Data Platform** — A software-defined virtual SAN that sits between compute and public-cloud block storage, delivering roughly 10x faster performance for databases and analytics on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud while reducing overprovisioning.
- **Silk Cloud DB Virtualization Platform** — The database-focused deployment of the platform, positioning high-performance storage adjacent to compute for consistent low-latency access to production data at scale.
- **Silk Echo** — A Copy Data Management solution that creates instant, fully functional, zero-footprint copies of production data - a live digital twin - so teams can run AI pipelines, dev/test and analytics without impacting production.
- **Silk Cloud Database as a Service (DBaaS)** — A managed database offering built on the Silk Cloud Data Platform, combining Silk performance with database provisioning and automation.

## Achievements

- Recognized in Gartner's 2026 Hype Cycle for Strategic Cost Management.
- Reached a $1B valuation in 2017.
- Reinvented from hardware flash-array maker (Kaminario) to software-defined cloud storage (Silk) in 2020.
- Franciscan Health reported $2.8M in annual cloud storage savings using Silk.
- Sentara reported 32x faster analytics and ETL workflows, cutting processing windows from hours to minutes.
- Launched Silk Echo in February 2025, extending the platform into real-time AI and zero-footprint data copies.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Silk named in Gartner's 2026 Hype Cycle for Strategic Cost Management as cloud cost pressure pushes enterprises toward performance-optimization layers.
- **2025-02** — Launched Silk Echo, a zero-footprint Copy Data Management solution aimed at accelerating real-time AI and dev/test workflows.
- **2025-01** — Secured $30M in growth capital from Trinity Capital to fund expansion.
- **2022-11** — Appointed Tom Murphy (ex-Turbonomic, Bit9, Bradford Networks) as Chief Marketing Officer.

## Links

- Website: https://silk.us/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/silkai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/silk_us
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Silk.us.cloud/

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Last updated: 2026-08-14