This past November at the DevConnections conference, Richard Campbell, from .NET Rocks, had the opportunity to interview Quentin Clark, the general manager for the Database Engine Group for Microsoft SQL Server. Check out what Quentin had to say about SQL Server 2008 R2 and the Parallel Data Warehouse in this two-part video series: 
 
Part 1 
Part 2

For more information about SQL Server 2008 R2 and the Parallel Data Warehouse, see Sheila Molnar's interviews with Microsoft's Tom Casey and Donald Farmer:

Tom Casey on Microsoft’s BI Strategy
Donald Farmer Discusses the Benefits of Managed Self-Service BI