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When you activate Azure Rights Management (Azure RMS), your organization can start to protect important data by using applications and services that support this information protection solution. Administrators can also manage and monitor protected files and emails that your organization owns. You must enable Rights Management before you can begin to use the information rights management (IRM) features within Office, SharePoint, and Exchange, and protect any sensitive or confidential file.
- Always up, always on
Windows Azure provides automatic OS and service patching, built in network load balancing and resiliency to hardware failure. It supports a deployment model that enables you to upgrade your application without downtime. - Open
Windows Azure enables you to use any language, framework, or tool to build applications. Features and services are exposed using open REST protocols. - Unlimited servers, unlimited storage
Windows Azure enables you to easily scale your applications to any size. It is a fully automated self-service platform that allows you to provision resources within minutes. Elastically grow or shrink your resource usage based on your needs. You only pay for the resources your application uses. - Powerful capabilities
Windows Azure delivers a flexible cloud platform that can satisfy any application need. It enables you to reliably host and scale out your application code within compute roles. You can store data using relational SQL databases, NoSQL table stores, and unstructured blob stores, and optionally use Hadoop and business intelligence services to data-mine it. You can take advantage of Windows Azure's robust messaging capabilities to enable scalable distributed applications, as well as deliver hybrid solutions that run across a cloud and on-premise enterprise environment.