It's an ​IoT world: The big shift to intelligent devices

'Internet of things' (IoT), or 'machine to machine' connectivity (m2m) as the cellular providers define it, is now reaching a widespread level of maturity. Internet of Things World conference has its biggest event of the year in Silicon Valley May 10-12 (the other edition is in Dublin Ireland in November). In many ways IoT is the vibrant new frontier of online innovation in the valley, with data flows from objects and devices starting to reach huge levels and projections of massive increases. Inevitably the big players in enterprise computing and mobile connectivity are watching like hawks to see where and how the space plays out and how they can dominate. Cisco is heavily committed already with their own  conference in Berlin while Microsoft has done a stellar job building out their Azure platform in anticipation of the coming tsunami of device data.