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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Renewing SAS solutions: a two-step process](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/11/renewsolutions.jpg)
Did you know that applying a new SAS license file for many SAS solutions is a two step process? Because many of SAS’ most of popular solutions (including SAS® Visual Analytics, SAS® Enterprise MinerTM and SAS® Customer Intelligence) depend on the middle-tier architecture for primary user access, information about licensed
![5 characteristics you meet in the cloud NIST 5 characteristics of cloud computing](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/11/cloud5chars.jpg)
If someone asks you whether SAS runs in the cloud, there are exactly two wrong answers: "yes" and "no". Instead, this question should spark a discussion. It should be a discussion about which of the five characteristics of cloud computing they are interested in. The answers will point you in
![How to tune storage arrays and clustered file systems for use with SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
For those of you who have followed my SAS Administration blogs, you will know that setting up your IO subsystem (the entire infrastructure from the network/fibre channels in your physical server, across your connections, to the fibre adapters into the storage array, and finally to the physical disk drives in
![SAS Metadata Server clusters: two ways to monitor](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/10/monitoring1.jpg)
While previous SAS releases provided high availability through custom-designed failover techniques, many customers requested more robust failover or cluster support for high availability. The SAS 9.4 Metadata Server cluster was introduced to help address this need. A SAS Metadata Server cluster is a coordinated set of metadata servers that act
![Enterprise Architecture: Your chance to design your perfect SAS environment](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/10/Greg_bowl_icon.jpg)
Perhaps it is my astrological sign, but as a Gemini, I seem to be cursed blessed with a duality that consists of balancing my creative side with exacting nature of my logical side. In my personal life, I enjoy woodworking. Whether it is creating “art in the round” from a
![SAS Environment Manager 2.4 -- new options for monitoring your SAS environment](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/10/EV_SMA.jpg)
If you’ve used SAS Environment Manager, you know what kind of information it’s capable of providing – the metrics that show you how the resources in your SAS environment are performing. But what if it could do more? What if it could automatically collect and standardize metric data from SAS