Your company wants to refactor its mission critical line-of-business (LOB) application to make it more robust and scalable as well as to increase performance. The CIO wants to investigate hosting the item in Windows Azure. Currently, the application has a lot of maintenance processes running in the background, such as processes to ensure that there is no orphaned data by running queries against the database, processes that check website availability with an email sent if a website is non-responsive; and a process that counts how many users logged in during the previous hour and sends an email to the IT support staff.