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

*SAS in the Cloud

*Why the Cloud?

*In 2013 1/3 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.

*What is the Cloud?

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.”

*What is the Cloud?

Source: Wikipedia

*Cloud terminology

*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

*Client Server Models

Enterprise Guide and Web browsers are “thin clients”

*SAS Cloud Products

*SAS OnDemand for Academics

*SAS OnDemand for Professionals

*SAS Visual Analytics

*Our panelists

*Tyler Smith, National University

*Amy Peters, SAS Institute

*Rebecca Ottesen, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo

*AnnMaria DeMars, The Julia Group

*Thank you!

*Links to resources on SAS in the Cloud

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