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