Overview of Microsoft Analytics Platform Solution

SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) provides a MPP scale-out solution for data warehouse implementations. The recent release of Appliance Update 1 includes a set of features to better allow PDW to add a new workload region supporting Hadoop through HDInsight, extending existing workloads with new physical capacity, improved load performance, additional querying functionality through PolyBase, integrated authentication, and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE).