The SAS® Enterprise Intelligence Platform Powered by Sun's Datacenter of the Future

In the Spotlight Introduction to the Datacenter of the Future

What is the Datacenter of the Future?
SAS and Sun have jointly developed an innovative approach for helping organizations better manage, optimize and enhance their SAS and Sun IT infrastructures throughout their enterprises. The Datacenter of the Future features end-to-end, preconfigured solutions to help organizations increase business performance while reducing the cost and complexity of implementing enterprise intelligence solutions. The initiative includes reference architectures designed to facilitate the deployment process – now and in the future.

How can your organization benefit from using the Datacenter of the Future?
The Datacenter of the Future will help businesses successfully deploy the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform on Sun systems more quickly and efficiently. In addition, organizations can establish an enterprisewide analytic architecture based on secure, accurate data that is fully integrated into IT processes. Users at every level – from executives to business-unit decision makers – will have the information they need to make smarter decisions based on superior analytics.

The Datacenter of the Future provides a highly secure environment for addressing key data issues that IT managers face when deploying enterprise analytic architectures, including:

• Extracting and cleaning data.
• Loading and maintaining data warehouses.
• Working with business units and executive management decision makers to understand their business issues and objectives.

The Datacenter of the Future Knowledge Center
SAS and Sun have a variety of resources to help organizations learn how to gain a competitive advantage via analytics, including:

• White papers
• Reference Configurations
• On-demand Webcasts
• Presentations
• Special offers

To download any of these assets, see the Datacenter of the Future Knowledge Center.