Presenter: Jelle Daemen
SaasNow has been managing SAS products in a private cloud in a unique monthly, fully self-service cloud model since 2015. Starting with SAS vApp technology, SaasNow was one of the first providers to offer a true cloud experience for SAS Visual Analytics. With the release of SAS Viya in 2016, SaasNow has been able to support many more SAS products, including SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning. Currently, all SAS Viya products and bundles can be automatically deployed on SaasNow within a few hours. Over the years, we have deployed and managed hundreds of environments, ranging from small four core demo environments to multi-server production setups of up to 128 cores with a wide variety of customer-specific customizations and integrations, like customized authentication (Kerberos or SSO integrations) and external data source connections (SQL and Apache Hadoop). We have developed best practices for sizing, deploying, updating, upgrading and monitoring many instances of SAS Viya at the same time. This enables us to make SAS Viya available to our customers and partners within several hours and have new releases available within days after they have been released by SAS. We offer a true cloud experience for SAS Viya. Divided in four activities deployment, monitoring, upgrading and maintenance, we will explain the lessons learned on deploying and managing multiple SAS Viya 4 environments in the cloud.
