Microsoft announces new platform offerings suitable for big data
Microsoft announces Azure SQL Database elastic database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake.
The three major data platforms are: Azure SQL Database elastic database, Microsoft’s new offering to support SaaS applications; Azure SQL Data Warehouse, a fully managed relational data warehouse-as-a-service; and Azure Data Lake Microsoft’s hyper-scale data store optimized for big data analytic workloads.
Read more here - http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2015/04/29/microsoft-announces-azure-sql-database-elastic-database-azure-sql-data-warehouse-azure-data-lake.aspx