Case Study: a furniture and home goods e-commerce company achieves faster-than-on-prem SQL Server performance with Silk Software

a furniture and home goods e-commerce company achieves 0.2 ms faster SQL Server performance with Silk

A furniture and home goods e-commerce company faced a corporate mandate to move its data out of an on-premises data center by a strict deadline. After migrating 40 Microsoft SQL Server hosts to Google Cloud, the team encountered significant throughput limitations. With no time to refactor its databases, the company needed a way to get faster performance on the cloud quickly and turned to its partner, Silk, for its software-defined cloud storage platform.

Silk accelerated the company's SQL Server databases, delivering performance that was 0.2 ms faster than the previous on-prem solution. The solution provided 3.2 GB/s throughput per SQL host and eliminated all performance limitations on Google Cloud. Silk also delivered a 3:1 data reduction, making the company's cloud resources more cost efficient. These dramatic results allowed the customer to immediately push the platform into production and confidently continue its migration to meet the company deadline.