With declining revenues from recorded music, road tours are becoming more and more important. Historically, artists could expect up to 25% of their revenue to come from album sales; today they typically receive little more than a penny for 20 plays on YouTube. As a result, a t-shirt sale can generate as much profit as 25,000 plays. For big acts, the figures can be huge. In the first 11 nights of their iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour, U2 grossed $22 million and the band has recently embarked upon...
Read MoreAdoption of Network Function Virtualization on OpenStack to dramatically accelerate service agility and innovation for $1.6 trillion telecommunications industry.
Read MoreRackspace is warning retailers to get their websites ready for predicted traffic spikes after 83 per cent of UK consumers claim a consistently slow or unavailable websites negatively affect their brand loyalty. According to a survey of over 2,000 consumers in the UK[1], over half of consumers (56 per cent) buy something online at least once a week and 59 per cent of shoppers will browse online during big shopping events such a Black Friday.
Read MoreAWS is adding a new storage class for data that is accessed infrequently. The new S3 Standard – Infrequent Access (Standard – IA) storage class offers the same high durability, low latency, and high throughput of S3 Standard. Customers now have the choice of three S3 storage classes (Standard, Standard – IA, and Glacier) that are designed to offer 99.999999999% (eleven nines) of durability.? Standard – IA has an availability SLA of 99%. This new storage class inherits all of the...
Read MoreBrocade has introduced the Brocade SDN Controller 2.0, a commercial distribution of the OpenDaylight (ODL) controller based on the Lithium ODL release, and two new software-defined networking (SDN) applications—Brocade Topology Manager and Brocade Flow Manager. These new solutions reinforce Brocade’s leadership in open source SDN, providing greater innovation, interoperability and choice while eliminating vendor lock-in for customers.
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