Panelists: Amy Peters, SAS Institute AnnMaria DeMars, The Julia Group Rebecca Ottesen, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo Tyler Smith, National University Moderator: Susan Slaughter
* In /3 of IT budgets will be spent on cloud computing. * Cloud vendors are experiencing growth rates of 90% per annum. * 82% of companies saved money by moving to the Cloud. * Every week 140,000 hard drives crash in the US.
According to Wikipedia: * “Cloud computing is a synonym for distributed computing over a network and means the ability to run a program on many connected computers at the same time.” * “More commonly used to refer to network- based services which appear to be provided by real server hardware, which in fact are served up by virtual hardware.”
Source: Wikipedia
* Software as a Service (SaaS) * Consumers run software * Platform as a Service (PaaS) * Consumers maintain and run software * Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) * Consumers maintain and run operating system and software
Enterprise Guide and Web browsers are “thin clients”
* SAS OnDemand for Academics * SAS OnDemand for Professionals * SAS Visual Analytics
* Tyler Smith, National University * Amy Peters, SAS Institute * Rebecca Ottesen, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo * AnnMaria DeMars, The Julia Group
* Links to resources on SAS in the Cloud