Cloud messaging is a key architectural element for Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet (I2) systems as it provides connectivity, time and space efficiency, elasticity, and fault tolerance needed to operate and scale IoT and I2 applications. The Vortex platform enables seamless, ubiquitous, efficient data sharing across applications using a standard set of tools and a single data distribution service (DDS) implementation. Vortex Cloud provides universally accessible "Internet services" for sharing data between DDS-enabled applications using elastic and fault-tolerant public/private cloud deployments.