Cheryl Doninger is a Senior Director in SAS’ Research and Development division. She is responsible for guiding development of a variety of SAS server and compute technologies as well as optimizing the ways in which SAS software interacts with IT. Under Cheryl’s leadership, SAS works with strategic partners to incorporate technology advances with SAS software to improve the performance and scalability of all SAS products and solutions. Since joining SAS in 1986, Cheryl has played a key role in setting the company’s technical direction in scalability, grid and cloud computing. She is also a multi-patent holder in the area of grid computing. Cheryl earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University and a master's degree in Computer Studies from North Carolina State University.
If you'd like to extend your investment in the Hadoop infrastructure, SAS Grid Manager for Hadoop can help by enabling you to colocate SAS Grid jobs on your Hadoop data nodes. It works because SAS Grid Manager for Hadoop – which is Cloudera certified – is integrated with the native
