White papers

Stretching is an important part of any keep fit regime, but what about when it comes to deploying enterprise analytics platforms?  This blog post introduces the concept of a “Stretch Cluster” for running your analytics workloads.  Use this approach to:  Reduce RPO and RTO to zero  Add/improve High Availability (HA)  Improve uptime and SLA adherence  […]

To mark Techies Day, our Technical Consultant Ryan Martis shares a snapshot of what he gets up to at Demarq, what he loves most about working in the industry, and advice for others wanting to follow in his footsteps… What sparked your interest in IT and how did you get to where you are now? […]

Tell us about your partnership with Demarq. How did it come about, and what is it like working with the Demarq team?   I was first introduced to Demarq in 2020 when I had recently started Nexus. We spoke about their work with UK Government, building bespoke applications, and particularly what they were doing with Optical […]

The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) is often underestimated during the software procurement process. This is because there’s always a gap between what a software vendor deems to be a production-ready platform, and what a customer actually requires to meet their business needs. As environments become more complex, with disparate workloads and development paradigms, then […]

In this white paper, we address the topic of modernisation and discuss the possibility for this to be customer-led, rather than vendor-led.  

If not correctly managed, logging can impact the stability of your SAS environment. The first part of this three-part blog series discusses the storage problem, and how to configure a uniform architecture to solve it. 

This is the second part of the three-part blog series where we explore the range of solutions which help System Administrators diagnose platform issues and decrease time to resolution of outages.  

If you’re a SAS system admin, you’re familiar with logging. This is the third of the three-part blog series dedicated to exploring the range of solutions which help SAS administrators diagnose platform issues  

A large-scale SAS® Grid platform can be a complex environment to administer, and going from an out-of-the-box installation to running the service as part of business as usual (BAU) can appear daunting. 

The bottom line is directly influenced by a great many factors, none more so than the profit or money lost from customers. Accessing financial performance