Introducing the SAS Cloud

The SAS Cloud is a private cloud hosted by SAS Solutions OnDemand that provides ready access to and easy management of SAS software. Customers can use applications in the SAS Cloud without investing the time and resources that are required to support their own SAS installation.
Within the SAS Cloud, your organization is licensed to use one or more dedicated SAS environments. A SAS environment is a complete, self-contained, fully functioning deployment of SAS applications. Environments in the SAS Cloud are deployed using virtualization technology, which makes the environments easy to create and manage. A typical environment includes the following:
  • data storage that can be populated with your organization’s data
  • virtualized software, servers, and services that perform various types of processing
  • virtualized client applications through which users can access SAS functionality
  • administrative interfaces for uploading data, organizing SAS content, and managing permissions