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SaasNow offers fully-managed cloud environments for SAS Viya in a unique monthly model. SaasNow monthly SAS licenses are available for new environments until June 19, 2021!

Environments that have been deployed before June 19, 2021 can keep using their SaasNow SAS licenses without any changes, and will continue to receive full support from SaasNow and SAS, so get your license now!

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For customers and partners that already have a SAS license, SaasNow continues to offer hosting services in a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model.

Upload your SAS license in our portal, and your environment is ready within one business day. Both Viya 3.5 as well as Viya 4 (2020.1 and later) are supported, and your environment is fully managed by our specialists so you can focus on using the software instead of maintenance!

SAS Viya 4 available on SaasNow

We are proud to announce that SaasNow supports SAS Viya 4. Starting with Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) deployments, SAS Viya 4 is now available through SaasNow. Version 2020.1 and later are supported.

Deployment options

SaasNow supports the following deployment models;

• Viya 4 on SaasNow – Public Cloud
  Since October 2019, SaasNow offers local hosting of SAS Viya 3.5 environments through Microsoft Azure on multiple locations. Viya 4 environments can also be deployed by SaasNow on Azure in a fully managed model.
• Viya 4 on SaasNow
  Hosting SAS Viya in the SaasNow primary datacenters is also possible. Whilst official support from SAS on local deployments is expected later in 2021H1, SaasNow already supports the deployment of Viya 4 environments on SaasNow in our Amsterdam and New York datacenters for SAS Partners. This is an easy and cost-effective way to get started with Viya 4.
• Viya 4 on your cloud
  Some of our customers and partners already have commitments to a major cloud provider, and want to deploy their SAS Viya 4 environment there. SaasNow can support such deployments in Azure or other clouds as well as soon as SAS supports your cloud provider.

 

Viya 4 also encompasses a new, user based, license model. Monthly licenses similar to our SAS Viya 3.5 monthly licenses are not (yet) available through SaasNow. Similar to Viya 3.5 and SAS 9.4, SAS partners can request new, free partner licenses through their SAS Partner Manager, or partners and customers can use their existing licenses. Contact us for your preferred deployment model and the pricing options.

About SAS Viya 4

SAS is simplifying how AI and machine learning is embedded into decisions. With a reimagined cloud-native architecture and the availability of interactive or programming interfaces, SAS customers will no longer be bound by programming language, data silos or skills. Automated data preparation, machine learning (AutoML) and model deployment improve the productivity of scarce data science resources and expand AI capabilities to those with more widely available skill sets. Results are explained in easy-to-understand terms so all can act in the moment with confidence.

With a renewed focus on APIs, SAS Viya 4 makes it easier for application developers to collaborate with data science teams and respond quickly to changing business needs. These capabilities allow customers to acquire and consume enterprise-scale analytics in the most efficient way; they can consume just the AI services they need.

SAS Viya 4 uses a continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD) process that allows customers to choose their release intervals, so they gain access to the latest product innovations the moment they’re ready or can incorporate updates into their own change-management schedules. The container-based architecture, orchestrated by Kubernetes, provides portability across different cloud environments.

 

More information

Contact our Sales team for more information on how to start using SAS Viya 4 in your organisation.

Tech update: SaasNow customizations

Over the years, we`ve implemented many customization on SaasNow environments. To name a few;

• Site2site VPN
• Point2site VPN (user based)
• Custom authentication providers
• Single sign on
• SFTP key authentication instead of user/password
• Custom domain name for single environment
• Custom domain name for multiple environments
• Custom TLS certificates
• Multi-tenant deployments
• Multi-server deployments
• Convert single-server to multi-server deployment
• Scale deployment from a few cores to many cores
• Private cloud deployment
• SAS Viya and SAS 9 combined deployment
• SAS CI360 integration

We are always happy to support our partners and customers with these types of customizations to fit their organizational and compliance requirements, and we pride ourselves in being able to provide these customizations fast and affordable. Are you interested to learn more about these customizations, or are you interested to learn if we support other customizations? Please let us know!

Tech update: JupyterHub now available on SAS Viya environments

We are happy to announce that we can now offer JupyterHub as an addon on SaasNow. JupyterHub allows multiple users to develop and run Jupyter notebooks on a server environment. Both Python and R are supported on JupyterHub, and users can install the packages they wish to use. Ofcourse, support for connecting to SAS Viya’s CAS server through the SWAT packages is available. Authentication is integrated with SAS Logon, so the same credentials are used for JupyterHub and SAS Viya. If you are already logged in to the SAS environment, or if Single Sign On is implemented on your environment, you do not need to enter credentials. Getting started is simple;

• Request JupyterHub to be deployed on your environment through support@saasnow.com
• When JupyterHub is activated, it is available at the following URL: https://<yourhostname>.saasnow.com/jupyterhub
• Login with your credentials for the SAS environment if needed

If you have any questions, our support team is ready to assist.

Tech update: Container deployments

At SAS Global Forum 2019 in Dallas, we announced that SaasNow supports containerized SAS Viya deployments. Next to the programming-only SAS Viya containers, support has been added for other containerized SAS deployments as well. One notable product is SAS Open Model Manager, for which deployment is now supported at SaasNow. We continue to develop our containerized deployments, and expect to be able to offer more functionality, including support for the upcoming SAS Viya 4 release, soon.

SaasNow renews ISO and NEN certifications for data security

We are proud to announce that SaasNow renewed its ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 certifications for data security. With these certifications we demonstrate that we meet the highest data security standards, including specific health care requirements in The Netherlands. With this, our customers are assured that their data and information will be treated with the utmost care by SaasNow.

More information about data security at SaasNow: SaasNow Security Overview

Lessons Learned from Managing SAS® Viya® at Scale in the Cloud

Hosting multiple servers in the cloud having different kind of SAS Viya products at the same time is quite a complex thing to do, as the most important thing to do is making sure actions taken are as automated as possible. To be able to do this, you might need to use multiple tools or programming languages.

To explain the complexity and differences in lessons we learned and tools we use, we divided the activities in four different kinds of activities being: deployment, monitoring, upgrading and maintenance.

Whilst quick starts are available for deploying SAS Viya on multiple (public) cloud providers, these do not take into account the other aspects of managing a SAS Viya environment.

Our colleague Jelle Daemen would present at the SAS Global Forum about the lessons learned. Unfortunately the SAS Global Forum is cancelled. We still want to share this information with you in this paper:

Paper: Lessons Learned from Managing SAS® Viya® at Scale in the Cloud

After reading this paper, we hope you have learned what kind of issues we encounter and how we dealt with a number of them.