Name: Unlocking Cloud Success in Healthcare by Maximizing Savings, Efficiency, and Innovation
Start: 2025-04-09T15:00:00Z
End: 2025-04-09T15:00:51.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 0

Silk is the leading platform for accelerating the flow of mission-critical data on the cloud. Here you will find talks on running mission-critical applications on the cloud, cloud infrastructure, cloud architecture, supporting high I/O workloads, rightsizing cloud resources, and more.

Join Tom O'Neill, VP of Product at Silk, and Tanel Poder, a renowned database consultant, as they delve into the intersection of AI and relational databases. This webinar provides an overview of Tanel’s extensive testing of vector extensions and AI capabilities in databases, including benchmarking tools and practical applications. Gain insights into his findings on performance optimization, real-world use cases, and the evolving role of AI in database innovation. For a deeper dive into the specifics of his testing, explore Tanel’s detailed series of blog posts.

Key Takeaways:

- Overview of Vector Extensions Testing: Learn about Tanel's approach to testing vector extensions and AI capabilities in relational databases.
- Real-World Applications of Testing Results: Discover how Tanel's benchmarks reveal practical uses for AI in databases, such as personalized recommendations and fraud detection.
- Deeper Insights Available: Find out how to access Tanel’s blog series for a comprehensive look at his testing methodologies and detailed results.

Inside the Lab: Testing AI-Powered Vector Extensions in Databases

Discover how leading organizations are leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies to revolutionize their operations. In this engaging roundtable discussion, hear directly from Silk customers Franciscan Health, PTC, and Sentara Healthcare as they share their AI adoption journeys and how Silk’s software-defined cloud storage has empowered them to unlock the full potential of their data. The webinar will also feature a keynote from Eduardo Kassner, Chief Data and AI Officer at Microsoft, offering insights into the latest trends in AI and data innovation.

Attendees will:

- Learn how top organizations are implementing AI to drive innovation and efficiency.
- Understand the role of Silk’s high-performance database platform in enabling seamless AI adoption.
- Gain expert insights into future AI trends

AI Transformation Unleashed: Stories from Silk Customers and Microsoft Experts

In today’s cloud environments, it’s not unusual for 20 copies of production data to be scattered across an organization’s ecosystem, serving diverse needs like development, testing, backups, analytics, and AI. However, managing this data efficiently while keeping costs and storage needs in check can be challenging. 

Join us for an informative webinar where we’ll dive deep into effective strategies for gaining control over your cloud data. We’ll explore the key differences between data management in the cloud versus traditional on-prem environments and discuss best practices for keeping your cloud footprint to a minimum. You'll learn how to optimize your cloud data for various business needs—without sacrificing performance or security. 

We’ll also showcase how Silk cloud storage simplifies data workflows, making it easier to manage multiple data copies efficiently while driving down costs. This session will cover: 

- Common use cases for data copies in cloud environments 
- Strategies to reduce your overall cloud data footprint 
- Tips for maintaining data readiness across different workflows 
- How Silk cloud storage enhances data management and optimization 

Whether you’re a cloud architect, IT leader, DBA, or data engineer, this webinar will provide valuable insights and practical steps to make your cloud data management more efficient and cost-effective. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to streamline your cloud operations!

Mastering the Cost of Data in the Cloud: Strategies for Reducing Your Cloud Footprint

Discover how renowned database consultant Tanel Poder achieved an astonishing 20 GB/s on a single cloud VM using the Silk Platform. Join Silk’s VP of Product, Tom O’Neill, and Tanel himself as they break down the performance test, the impressive results, and how you can achieve similar outcomes for your workloads.

This webinar is available on demand—watch anytime to unlock the full potential of your cloud environment!

How I Achieved 20 GB/s of Throughput on a Single Cloud VM

Are you aiming to design, implement, manage, and optimize a top-tier storage solution in the cloud, only to find it’s more complex and costly than expected? You’re not alone.  
  
Join us for a webinar where we’ll highlight the top 5 indicators that your cloud storage is non optimal— and how to optimize.  
  
In this session, we’ll dissect the root causes of:  
  
• Poor storage performance affecting UX 
• Excessive batch jobs and backup times 
• Escalating cloud storage expenses  
• Frequent drive outages (unplanned and/or planned maintenance) 
• Inefficient duplication of production data for Dev, Test, Analytics, and AI use cases 
   
This webinar is helpful for teams that manage or rely on cloud storage such as cloud architects, IT managers, and their teams.

Top 5 Cloud Database Storage Struggles: How to Recognize and Resolve Them

According to findings from TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), 54% of organizations have had to switch back to on-premises after an initial cloud migration.

Cloud repatriation, or the forced move of applications and environments from the cloud back into the on-premises data center, represents a disaster that many organizations would rather avoid.

To help organizations manage their cloud resources more effectively and save themselves from cloud repatriation, ESG and Silk have partnered together to produce this BrightTALK Custom Talk webinar.

Tune in to the full discussion to learn strategies you can implement to prevent cloud repatriation.

Trends in Cloud Repatriation & How to Avoid It

Technology is an enabler of change in the insurance industry, leading to more personalized customer experiences and the ability for carriers to innovate and get more value out of customer and third-party data. And it doesn’t take entirely new applications or datasets: you can use the technology investments you have already made! 

In this webinar, we will talk about how insurance carriers can do more with the technology and data they have by leveraging the cloud to enable data insights and drive better outcomes.  

During this discussion, we will talk about: 
- What’s driving change in the insurance industry 
- How insurance carriers are approaching innovation and digital transformation 
- The benefits and capabilities of the cloud for getting more value out of the data you have to gain better insights and enable AI 
- A technical example of making application data available in the cloud now

Insurance Industry Trends: Using the Cloud to Maximize Value from Your Data

Keeping data secure in the cloud is critical, especially in highly regulated industries like healthcare, with HIPAA and privacy regulations. In this webinar, we will talk about how to use database snapshots and data masking to securely bring data to development environments. We will use an example case study from Sentara Healthcare. 

Specifically, this webinar will cover:
• The current challenges in securing patient data
• The definition and importance of data masking 
• How to implement data masking in the development lifecycle
• Tools and technologies for effective data masking
• Future trends in data security and masking

Delivering and Masking Critical Patient Data for the Full Development Lifecycle

First, the "easy" workloads moved to the cloud. Customers are now moving to mission-critical workloads that need more performance, resilience, protection, and cost efficiencies. This webinar will discuss optimizing mission-critical workloads with Silk and Rubrik in your tech stack. 

With Silk sitting between your databases and the underlying cloud storage infrastructure, your applications get up to 10x better performance in the cloud. Silk adds additional layers of resiliency across availability zones, regions, and even clouds to avoid outages and downtime proactively. 

With Rubrik, your data is not just secured, but fortified. It ensures you are fully prepared to bounce back from a cyber attack, de-risking your cloud migration. Rest easy, knowing your data is protected 24x7 with AI-powered cyber resilience. 

Attendees will learn best practices for cloud performance and security from two leading tech vendors.

Drive Performance and Cost Optimization in the Cloud with Silk & Rubrik

In this webinar, we will use an example database environment setup to evaluate the DBaaS options from Silk, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services. The example database setup will be a Microsoft SQL Server environment that we would like to move from on-premises to the cloud in a managed capacity. Using this example environment, we will compare features like flexibility, data management, DBA support, and cost efficiency.
 
This webinar is Part 2 in a series on DBaaS. Other topics in this series include a checklist of considerations for adopting DBaaS for databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, and exploring the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of DBaaS with Silk.

Exploring DBaaS Options for Microsoft SQL Server

This webinar will walk through the main factors that you need to consider when adopting a Database as a Service (DBaaS) solution for your databases. The checklist includes: Your cloud goals, application development model, workload requirements, resiliency requirements, data usage architecture, and future plans for innovation.  
 
This webinar is Part 1 in a series of webinars on DBaaS. Other topics covered in this series include exploring your DBaaS provider options for databases like Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, calculating the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of DBaaS with Silk, and more.

Preparing for Database as a Service (DBaaS): Considerations to Make it a Success

Organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud to manage their data. But it’s not just about moving data, it’s about leveraging the cloud’s potential to enhance the most vital and sensitive parts of your IT infrastructure.  

In this webinar, we will discuss the process of sizing, migrating, and modernizing Oracle workloads for the public cloud. Special attention is given to provisioning cloud resources, understanding Oracle’s licensing model, and re-architecting for the cloud. 

The speaker is Kellyn Gorman, Director of Data and AI at Silk, who previously worked at Microsoft as lead subject matter expert on complex Oracle migrations to Azure cloud.

Best Practices for Running Oracle Workloads on the Public Cloud

Silk hosts  Simon Palmer, a leading retail CIO with 25 years of experience in IT transformation and data strategy, most recently heading up the IT and Data teams at Frasers Group, a high-end UK retailer. We asked Simon to discuss in-depth the top 5 things retail CIOs and their teams should take on this year to adapt and thrive in this exciting new world of omnichannel retail. 

Simon will go all-in on his top list of priorities and provide actionable advice for IT leaders on the following: 

- Leveraging technology as a competitive differentiator 
- Get your customer buying habits, inventory, and seasonality data in order  
- Balance engineering resources across operations and innovation 
- Adopt sustainable automation for more impactful teams and efficiency gains 
- Leverage AI to deliver frictionless, fun, simple and relevant shopping experiences 

Hear from a retail industry leader on how to drive organizational success through transformative initiatives.

5 Things Every Retail CIO’s Team Should Do This Year

Silk now offers three deployment options: Silk on IaaS, Managed Silk, and Silk Cloud Database as a Service.

In this webinar, you will learn more about our new offering: Silk Cloud Database as a Service.

With this new deployment option, Silk offers a fully managed cloud database service for any major database platform. Learn how customers get maximum flexibility, with the ability to choose cloud VM instance types and supported database versions. Silk manages the full database stack and employs a full-service DBA team available 24/7/365.

The intended audience for this webinar:
- Your current cloud DBaaS or PaaS solutions do not meet your needs, particularly as it relates to performance, data management, and flexibility, or
- You are on cloud IaaS and want to reduce day-to-day management of your databases, or
- You are managing on-prem solutions that you want to move to the cloud in a managed capacity.

Learn more getting started with DBaaS on the Silk website and request a demo: https://silk.us/request-a-demo/

Introduction: Silk Cloud Database as a Service (DBaaS)

Controlling costs and increasing data velocity for Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) is top of mind for healthcare organizations as they continually look for ways to improve cost efficiency while enhancing patient care. In this webinar, we will discuss how to use Silk’s thin snapshots in the cloud to maximize what can be done with EHR data and gain operational efficiencies for healthcare IT teams.
 
What will be discussed: 
• The EHR dataflow and different uses of sub-production environments
• How snapshots work natively in the cloud vs. how snapshots work in the cloud with Silk
• The business value of taking more snapshots faster, including:
- Controlling costs associated with EHR implementation and ongoing management
- Making EHR data available to analysts faster for decision-making, improving patient outcomes, and optimizing healthcare operations
- Freeing up your IT team with faster Extract, transform, and load (ETL) cycles

Control Costs and Increase Data Velocity for EHR Using Silk Snapshots

Silk now offers three deployment options: Silk on IaaS, Managed Silk, and Silk Cloud Database as a Service.  

In this webinar, you will learn more about our new offering: Silk Cloud Database as a Service. 

With this new deployment option, Silk offers a fully managed cloud database service for any major database platform. Learn how customers get maximum flexibility, with the ability to choose cloud VM instance types and supported database versions. Silk manages the full database stack and employs a full-service DBA team available 24/7/365. 

The intended audience for this webinar: 
- Your current cloud DBaaS or PaaS solutions do not meet your needs, particularly as it relates to performance, data management, and flexibility, or
- You are on cloud IaaS and want to reduce day-to-day management of your databases, or 
- You are managing on-prem solutions that you want to move to the cloud in a managed capacity.

Learn more getting started with DBaaS on the Silk website and request a demo: https://silk.us/request-a-demo/

Artificial Intelligence (AI) needs data to produce output and learn. And where does this data live? In your relational databases! 

In this webinar, Kellyn Gorman, Director of Technical Advocacy at Silk, will talk about the realities and practicalities of getting started with AI: operationalizing your data, security considerations in public vs. private AI, and of course, performance for high IO workloads.  

Attendees will learn about: 
- Where data is stored today 
- The benefits of relational databases in enabling data standards, access control, and advanced AI and ML features 
- The rise of security and the differences between public and private AI models 
- Building your own private AI models 
- The role of Silk in enabling responsible and high performing AI

AI: He Who Has the Data, Wins

Healthcare organizations are at a pivotal moment in their cloud journey, driven by the need to reduce costs, enhance operational efficiency, and embrace AI-powered innovation. Join us for a dynamic webinar featuring Scott Mayo, CEO at OptaFi, and David Berliner, Senior Director of Product at Silk. 

Through real-world customer examples, they’ll demonstrate how to unlock savings, optimize key systems like EHRs and claims processing, and leverage advanced health analytics for a competitive edge. Whether you’re a provider or payer, this session will equip you with practical strategies for success in the cloud.
  
Key takeaways for attendees: 
- Proven ways to cut costs and improve performance in healthcare cloud systems. 
- How to maximize value from EHRs, claims processing, and health analytics. 
- Strategies for future-proofing cloud adoption with AI and data protection and real-world insights.

Unlocking Cloud Success in Healthcare by Maximizing Savings, Efficiency, and Innovation

Cloud

Cloud Adoption

Healthcare

Health IT

Data Analytics

Data Best Practices

Welcome to the virtualization community on BrightTALK! Whether it affects servers, storage, networks, desktops or other parts of the data center, virtualization provides real benefits by reducing the resources needed for your
infrastructure and creating software-defined data center components. However, it can also complicate your infrastructure. Join this active community to learn best
practices for avoiding virtual machine sprawl and other common virtualization pitfalls as well as how you can make the most of your virtualization environment.

Virtualization

Cloud computing has exploded over the past few years, delivering a previously unimagined level of workplace mobility and flexibility. The cloud computing community on BrightTALK is made up of thousands of engaged professionals learning from the latest cloud computing research and resources. Join the community to expand your cloud computing knowledge and have your questions answered in live sessions with industry experts and vendor representatives.

Cloud Computing

Enterprise applications have become a crucial piece of infrastructure for many businesses. The enterprise applications community on BrightTALK features the latest insights in enterprise application integration, enterprise application architecture and EAS software. Join the community to gain access to thousands of videos and webinars presented by recognized enterprise information systems experts and arm yourself with the knowledge you need to succeed.

Enterprise Applications

The storage community on BrightTALK is made up of thousands of storage and IT professionals. Find relevant webinars and videos on storage architecture, cloud storage, storage virtualization and more presented by recognized thought leaders. Join the conversation by participating in live webinars and round table discussions.

Storage

Welcome to the big data and data management community on BrightTALK. Join thousands of data quality engineers, data scientists, database administrators and other professionals to find more information about the hottest topics affecting your data. Subscribe now to learn about efficiently storing, optimizing a complex infrastructure, developing governing policies, ensuring data quality and analyzing data to make better informed decisions. Join the conversation by watching live and on-demand webinars and take the opportunity to interact with top experts and thought leaders in the field.

Big Data and Data Management

As an IT professional, many of the problems you face are multifaceted, complex and don’t lend themselves to simple solutions. The information technology community features useful and free information technology resources. Join to browse thousands of videos and webinars on ITIL best practices, IT security strategy and more presented by leading CTOs, CIOs and other technology experts.

Unlocking Cloud Success in Healthcare by Maximizing Savings, Efficiency, and Innovation

Presented by

About this talk

More from this channel