WCF, Azure and scalability..

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I have several hardware devices that send large amount of data to the cloud. I need to store them on the cloud, process them and send some status reports based on the data analysed to clients who are interested in looking at those results. Clients are smart phone users.

A single client is interested in knowing one or more hardware status report.

I need to make this scalable using Azure, i.e be able to monitor 1000s of hardwares. I need cloud storage , cloud computing power and ability to send data from many hardwares and send reports to clients that are monitoring these hardwares.

I am new to WCF and Azure any guidance on how to write a scalable application using WCF and Azure will be very useful. Please explain how it can be scalable. Do I have to use worker role / web role ? I have some computationally intensive data processing to be done to produce the reports, that clients are interested in.

Shashi