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March 30: Ask the Expert: A SAS® 9 Customer’s Journey to SAS® Viya®

Hear Jason Simon, PhD, from the University of North Texas (UNT), discuss the school’s recent migration from SAS 9 to SAS Viya. With almost 1,000 trained users and more than 1,100 key business terms in active governance, UNT is seeing an even greater return on investment with new capabilities from SAS Viya. Simon will share UNT’s experience during this recent migration and how its user community reacted to the change.

Kubernetes primer for SAS Viya: Networking

With the new SAS Viya (2020.1 and later) running in a Kubernetes environment, there are myriad new concepts to grasp. In this SAS communities article, Rob Collum looks at three routes by which SAS Viya services can be reached from outside the cluster.

Azure storage for SAS architects

It’s important for SAS architects and deployment engineers to become familiar with Azure technology. A layer of the architecture that deeply influences SAS performance is the IO stack, and in Azure it’s possible to choose from different storage solutions. Edoardo Riva walks you through which ones are best suited for SAS.

A first look at migration to SAS Viya

The latest release of SAS Viya (2020.1 and later) is the future of SAS, and as a result, making it easy to get to this new release is critical. In this article, Gerry Nelson looks at how SAS Viya 3.x users can "migrate" to the new SAS Viya (2020.1 and later). For customers who want to get to the new SAS Viya (2020.1) from Viya 3.x or SAS 9.4 there will be two main approaches.

SCIM and SAS Viya

System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) is a standard for automating the exchange of user identity information between identity domains. SCIM can be used with SAS Viya to push identity information into the Identities microservice, rather than pulling identity information from an LDAP provider. Stuart Rogers examines the requirements for using SCIM and some considerations for the use of SCIM. 

SAS Viya 4: Loading external path-based data

You might have heard that the new SAS Viya (2020.1 and later) will deploy solely on containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. While Kubernetes introduces many benefits, it also introduces many changes, especially regarding storage. In particular, the containers that Kubernetes orchestrates are virtual with paths that map to virtual locations. SAS’ Stephen Foerster walks you through these paths.