I have put together a proof of concept which has the CC3200 LaunchPad communicating directly with Microsoft Azure to create a highly scalable (millions of messages a second) ingestion system that also provides near real-time streaming analytics, and machine learning capabilities.
I thought I would share it with you all, and hope you find it either interesting or useful.
End to End IoT Proof of Concept Website: http://ssmlwf.azurewebsites.net/
Source Code on Github: https://github.com/remixed123/IoT
Setup steps on Github Wiki: https://github.com/remixed123/IoT/wiki
The CC3200 really shines when it comes to working with Cloud services. It is low cost, yet has the encryption and protocol support required to directly communicate with highly secure Cloud systems like Azure.
Glenn.