Azure SQL Data Warehouse Service is now in public preview

Following on the heels of April's Build Conference Microsoft has announced the enterprise-class elastic data warehouse as a service- the Azure SQL Data Warehouse available for public preview.

 The driving forces are of course the super elasticity and cost effectiveness. If you have already invested in Azure cloud you have at your disposal Azure related tools, utilities and skills.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse Service is based on massive, parallel processing architecture and integrates with PowerBI and Azure Machine Learning for advanced analytics. It also integrates with Azure Data Factory for event processing and its big data offering, the Azure HD Insight.

Here is the big picture:

 

Read more here and here.

Details where to get started here:
http://hodentekmsss.blogspot.com/2015/06/cost-effective-data-warehousing-with.html