This seems like as good a day as any to review CrossValidated, and the whole StackExchange constellation of websites. It’s been a month since I joined, exactly, and today I also crossed the 1,000 reputation threshold on the site. So why not give my impressions of it? First, how I got there in the first […]
Tag: General
SAS and an Apps store – yes please
Interesting post on the SAS Blog site titled “The vision for SAS Platform as a Service”. One thing that took my interest was this comment: “You are an independent SAS consultant with a growing client list in the field of fraud detection for government programs. You’ve created an add-on reporting component for the SAS Fraud […]
So quick survey on SAS Grid and Clustered File Systems (free text portlet for every response (thats not spam!))
So a quick survey. If your site is running SAS Grid on either SAS 9.1 or 9.2…… What Clustered File System, Operating System and SAN/NAS device are you running? Post a comment of the details against this blog post (and let me know if you don’t want the comment published) Every (valid) reply will get a full […]
Some PlatformAdmin.com Milestones …
My platformadmin.com blog has seen a few milestones of late: It had 1st birthday recently (boy that year went quickly!) … then, thanks to mentions from Waynette Tubs in the June edition of the SAS® Technical Report, and Andrew Ratcliffe in his excellent NOTE: blog, it saw a fair bit of extra traffic this month. […]
SAS Global Forum confused me on the SAS roadmap – James Taylor explains it well
When I was in vegas for the SAS Global Forum earlier this year, I have to admit I came away confused on where SAS was going over the next few years. The kick off session had a few good insights into some new feature functions and the theme of Big Data and Social Media came through strongly. But how SAS […]
Do do do – another Aussie blogs the SAS
One of the most experienced SAS installer/architects I know has finally decided to add his wisdom to the blog space! Michael Dixon from Scorpio has decided to pen his experiences dealing with implementing SAS software in a myriad of customer environments over at : http://scorpiosoftware.blogspot.com/ Check it out when you get a chance! (ps. ignore […]
SAS Grid Series – What, Why and How
SAS Grid computing has been around for a while, and while there is a lot of information available on SAS Grid, I found it incredibly hard to get a succinct view on how you would and wouldn’t deploy SAS Grid in an environment. This series will outline what I found. I will add each article […]
Poor old Harrah’s, actions speak larger than presentations
At the SAS Global Forum 2011, the opening session had a great presentation from Harrah’s President and CEO Gary Loveman. Gary spoke about how Harrah’s make use of SAS Analytics to encourage increased usage of their resorts and casino’s. He spoke about how they charter flights that fly people for free from different US cities to a Harrah’s resort, […]