This document discusses Microsoft's SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) product. It provides an overview of Microsoft's end-to-end data platform and highlights key benefits of PDW such as speed, scale, and ease of administration. PDW addresses challenges with significant data growth, daily information availability, and analyzing new data types. The document also outlines Microsoft's value proposition including leverage of existing investments, low migration effort, and linear scalability. It shares examples of Microsoft PDW customers and new capabilities in the V2 appliance such as querying Hadoop data and improved performance.