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Global entertainment giant Live Nation Entertainment, which operates online ticket sales site Ticketmaster and three other entertainment-related businesses, is putting its Ticketmaster and Live Nation Concert and Network operations into a private cloud.
It is a sizable undertaking. Live Nation has 7,000 employees in 153 offices spread across 18 countries. Its revenue in 2011 was $5.4 billion, of which Ticketmaster accounted for $1.56 billion and other Live Nation operations $3.8 billion.
The entertainment conglomerate conducts 22,000 concerts globally for 2,300 artists, operates recording studios at 80 venues — which include the House of Blues chain in North America — and interfaces with 200 million customers and potential customers…
There are many things people think about when it comes to the film industry: glamour, money, success, movies stars; but IT is probably low on the list. However, it is cloud computing that is causing a revolution in the film industry.
The film industry has decided to fully embrace cloud computing. This makes sense: the film industry is vast and sprawling, it is not just based in Hollywood, but all over the world. The film industry is more like a global village. Someone in London can share files with someone in Los Angeles at the drop of a hat. You can stream, you can talk to people, you can save vast amounts of money. I asked some of my friends who work in the industry how cloud computing helped them…
Since the mid 2000s one of the prevailing trends in the IT world has been to move networks, data, operating systems and servers into an environment where they are not tied to a specific piece of hardware.
In the early days the emphasis was on virtualisation. Organisations concentrated on increasing the number of servers on one machine using a hypervisor program with the activities kept in-house.
More recently there has been an emphasis on cloud computing, with more functions passing into the hands of a third party. The latter includes the option for a private cloud, dedicated to one enterprise…
Grazed from Wired. Author: Cade Metz.
Google started work on the Google Compute Engine over a year and a half ago, and it was all Peter Magnusson could do to keep his mouth shut.
Magnusson is the director of engineering for Compute Engine’s sister service, Google App Engine, and over the past 18 months, as he spoke at various conferences and chatted with various software developers about Google’s place in the world of cloud computing, he couldn’t quite explain how serious the company is about competing with Amazon’s massively popular Elastic Compute Cloud and other commercial services that seek to reinvent the way online applications are built and operated.
Google entered the cloud computing game back in 2008, when it unveiled Google App Engine, a service that lets outside software developers build and host applications atop the same sweeping infrastructure that runs Google’s own web services, such as Google Search and Gmail…
Grazed from LiveMint. Author: Editorial Staff.
With the advent of cloud computing, the Web is no longer used only as an application, but as a data provisioning system. Dropbox is one of the most popular tools available today for online file saving and syncing, and is one of the first steps towards full-scale cloud computing (true cloud would have the computer as only an input-output device; with Dropbox the storage and processing of your files happens on your own computer, and copies are saved online).
Dropbox allows its users to store at least 2 GB of free data, and has a number of incentives to add more free storage. In addition, there are paid data plans as well, with 50 GB costing $99 (Rs. 5,425) per year. You can access your data from any device connected to the Internet, using the Dropbox clients for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and even the mobile clients for iOS, Android and BlackBerry phones. Here are things you don’t already know about Dropbox…
Grazed from The Motley Fool. Author: Daniel Ferry.
Enterprise software is typically a staid field. Customers in this industry tend to be sticky: businesses often stay with their incumbent provider due to the high switching costs of retraining staff and IT departments for a new system. This has been especially true while business software required physical installation on local machines.
However, as storage and processing increasingly takes to the cloud, companies are rethinking their software needs. Cloud computing is typically more efficient, as the machines that actually store and compute data in the cloud are far more powerful than local machines. It’s probably inevitable that most, if not all, enterprise customers will eventually migrate to the cloud. This creates a rare juncture for customers to choose new enterprise software en masse. In an industry with high customer retention rates, capturing a big market share today pays off well into the future. The rush for cloud computing customers therefore resembles an Old West-style race for prospectors to stake their claim in gold country…
Does Cisco’s cloud faux pas this week reveal the dangers of cloud computing, and how little control users might have over it? As a review, Cisco raised the ire of users of its Linksys routers this week an automatic firmware update when it took them to a cloud-based management and administration tool they did not ask for or want.
They didn’t even request the firmware update.
What’s worse, the cloud-based tool stated in its privacy policy that Internet histories and other usage information could be tracked in order to better handle service and support inquiries should they arise…
Cloud computing seems to be one of the fastest growing technological fields. The cloud is data storage (documents, music, photos etc) for users on a network. A user can access their cloud from almost anywhere with different devices.
For example, with Apple’s (AAPL) iCloud, the user can sync multiples multiple Apple products (e.g. iPad, iPhone, iPod, AppleTV) together wirelessly. That means updating the iPhone without plugging it in to the computer.
Google’s (GOOG) Drive is especially useful for people who share documents, and is built around making Google Docs more efficient…
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Derrick Harris.
Like it or not, sweeping software bugs are just part and parcel with operating the largest computing systems the world has ever seen. On Monday night, Amazon Web Services published a detailed post-mortem of its latest cloud outage, which struck on Friday night as massive thunderstorms knocked out power to one of the company’s east coast data centers. However, issues with the data center’s backup generator were just a catalyst — it was a handful of latent software bugs that manifested themselves as the system attempted to restore itself that did the real damage.
Although AWS is already working on fixes at all levels, this won’t be the last cloud computing outage we see, either from AWS or its competitors in the cloud provider space…
Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.
Riverbed Technology RVBD +2.14% , the performance company, today announced that Riverbed Steelhead(R) Cloud Accelerator has been named the Best of TechEd Award winner in the Cloud Computing category. Steelhead Cloud Accelerator, developed by Riverbed(R) in partnership with Akamai(R) Technologies, provides a first-of-its-kind solution to accelerate software-as-a-service (SaaS) performance for Microsoft Office 365. Winners were announced during the Microsoft TechEd Conference, which took place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.
This award recognizes the innovation behind Steelhead Cloud Accelerator, which provides a complete solution to overcome the potential performance problems created by the distance between end users and their applications, problems that must be addressed to realize the full potential of SaaS…