The Cloud Reaches Hollywood: Ticketmaster Partners With Cisco
Live Nation Entertainment, which is currently operating online ticket
seller Ticketmaster along with 3 other entertainment businesses, is
migrating its entire network operation, including Ticketmaster itself,
into a private cloud.
It is expected that the migration will be a massive undertaking since
Live Nation currently has seven thousand employees housed in 153 offices
spread out across 18 different countries. The revenue of Live Nation in
2011 alone was $5.4 billion, which includes Ticketmaster’s $1.56
billion, with the other Live Nation operations earning the remaining
$3.8 billion. More details here