By Maria Esteves – July 10, 2014

The amazing 14th International Cloud Computing Conference & Exposition (Cloud Expo 2014) encompassing Big Data Expo and DEVOps Summit commenced June 10-12, 2014 at Javits Convention Center, New York. Produced by SYS-CON Media, this year's mega conference introduced Internet of Things Expo presented by @ThingsExpo Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of Tau Institute for Global ICT Research.

The Internet of Things (IoT), is an interconnection of embedded machine-to-machine (M2M) or smart devices via the Internet offering Smart Grid technology and services about the behaviors of suppliers and consumers, such as the connected home, the connected car, smart TV, smart meters and connected health.

Cloud Computing Expo produced by SYS-CON Media annually presents the latest infrastructure, software and platform as a service (IaaS, SaaS, PaaS) within a public, private and Hybrid Cloud environment; Big Data Analytics; DevOps technology; keynote presentations; seminars; workshops; exhibitors show floor; special events and receptions. Cloud Expo 2014 world class seminars and sponsors included Amazon Web Services, Automic, CA Technologies, Dell, FireHost, IBM, Infor, ITinvolve, Microsoft Azure, NuoDB, OutSystems, Oracle, Red Hat, SOA Software and QTS.

Cloud Expo 2014 Conference Session Criminal Pattern Identification and the Philosophy of Big Security Data, with Steve Surfaro, Business Development Manager, Industry Liaison of Axis Communications commenced Tuesday, June 10, 4:40pm. Speaker Surfaro demonstrated with case studies the technical approach to developing a Spatial Crime Analysis System with ArcView GIS and LEEDIR photo and video sharing App (Large Emergency Event Digital Information Repository).

Cloud Expo 2014 Conference Session Big Data and This Internet of Things: A Survey of the Architecture and Technology That Will Connect the World, with Senior Director of Trust Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Corporation, commenced Wednesday, June 11, 5:35pm. Speaker Ottenheimer discussed Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), a computer system for gathering and analyzing real time data; Semantic Security Monitoring for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Cloud IoT Operations Platform from data connectivity to data storage, analysis and computation.

The @ThingsExpo 2014 presented the best in IoT Cloud systems by top leading world experts, from tools for developers to methods of accelerating the web for IoT to wiring IoT to new security models and business case studies. The 5th International BIG DATA Expo, showcased new grounds in analytics for better decision making with M2M and solutions for IoT. DEVOps Summit 2014 presented by Cloud Expo Tech Chair Larry Carvalho, PaaS Research Manager, IDC, showcased powerful panel discussions such as Is DevOps Really Changing How IT is Working? Developers, IT business leaders, industry executives, software engineers, IT specialists, cloud developers, cloud architects, operations managers, product managers, and journalists attended this extraordinary three-day event.