I don't read "SAS abandoning mainframe" -- I read "SAS emphasizing parallel X86's for big data."
I'm not defending SAS, that's just how I read the story. Am I wrong? Massively parallel X86's seems to be the vehicle of choice for big data analysis: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2/zos/analytics-accelerator/ Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 3:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: SAS Deserting the MF? SAS Makes Triple Play SAS unleashed three major announcements at its Global Forum in San Francisco this week, with a wave of new SAS High-Performance Analytics capabilities, a newly unified SAS Customer Experience marketing suite, and new levels of support for public and private cloud deployment of SAS software. SAS High-Performance Analytics software is designed to take advantage of highly distributed, massively parallel processing (MPP) on memory- intensive X86 servers. It has been a big strategic push for SAS over the last two years, as customers demand ever-faster performance. SAS previously offered High-Performance versions of industry specific applications, such as financial risk analysis and marketing optimization. But with the SAS High-Performance Analytics upgrades announced this week and set for release in June, SAS will bring MPP power to six core products in its portfolio: Statistics, Data Mining, Text Mining, Optimization, Econometrics, and Forecasting. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS http://www.informationweek.com/software/business-intelligence/sas-makes-trip le-play/240153951?pgno=2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
