Visualizing Clouds on Different Stages of DWH - An Introduction to Data Warehouse as a Service

Various Advantages that cloud computing has established, namely scalability, agility, automation and resource sharing are being utilized by today's forward-thinking business leaders within their enterprise data centre. Large-scale data analytics as and when needed, at the price user can afford can be established on demand. This paper presents architecture to affect cloud computing for Data Warehouse applications and thrashes out the pros and cons of visualizing cloud on traditional data warehousing. The emphasis in this work is on providing different stages of Data Warehouse as a service (DWH-aaS), which have recently gained a great deal of attention. Conclusion is supported with a brief discussion on level of architecture adopted by some popular DWH cloud service providers.