Is data stored in a SAS 70 audited data center?

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Although technology companies like Teradata and SAS are making data easier to use, business will need well-educated analysts for years to come, according to Jerry Oglesby, senior director for global academic and certification programs at SAS, the global analytics specialist.

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Paul Kent is the Vice President of Big Data at SAS, a leading business intelligence and analytics firm.

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Carolinas has pulled analysts from several pockets across the system into a data analytics program and now has more than 90 involved in teams with expertise in SAS, bio-statistics, clinical data and research.

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Kennesaw State University offers a Master of Science in applied statistics, a minor in applied statistics and data analysis and a SAS certificate in statistical analysis.

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SSDs using NAND flash memory are capable of very fast read and write speeds and thus can make immediate use of such fast interfaces (whereas it takes many SAS HDDs working together to result in data rates even approaching there speeds).

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PCIe is becoming popular for flash memory storage devices since it offers much faster data rates than traditional SATA , SAS or Fibre Channel interfaces, which flash memory storage devices can make use of.

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Indeed, the two most successful statistical analysis programs, SPSS and SAS, expanded from their domain-specific base (social science for SPSS and bio-medical research for SAS) to become tools used wherever there was data to analyze.

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SAS's products are used to perform analysis in data-intensive industries such as insurance, health care, banking and retailing.

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Using SAS software, Coleman and Lynch determined that six pieces of data could be used to figure out which teams receive at-large bids.

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To run analytics, data had to be extracted out of the database into applications like SAS and proprietary NYSE apps to perform necessary analysis.

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