SAS charges on the basis of number or cores.   SAS environment running 1 core in Intel processor and 1 core running in Power processor, would sas charge same? Power processors are considered to be faster than Intel ones, so I would expect higher price if customer uses Power, any ideas? ... View more

SAS AMO 7.13 has new capability to run sas programs i.e. under SAS menu you can see a new option "sas programs" , thre if you click, it will open new editor window within excel and you can run a code there. Question is : in SMC , checking capabilities, it has got capabilities of amo 7.1 and since this is new function in amo 7.13, there is no capability present to control this feature. How do we control this. Can we update capabilities? Would we need to ask for latest depot and update out SMC client ? Advise.. ... View more

Have you done any research on SAS Grid on Cloud Platform such as AWS? or do you have already an environment running on AWS?   Grid would need shared File system, how AWS achieving this for SAS? Lustre? how feasible is that? ... View more