--- title: Ubuntu big data environment provides new insight into music industry trends description: Innovative London tech company Music Metric enables a comprehensive, up-to-the-hour view of artists’ popularity Summary Music Metric, an innovative London technology company, provides unique insight for music industry players and artists. It does this by analysing vast quantities of online data from music download sites, social networks, […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-big-data-environment-provides-new-insight-into-music-industry-trends?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 2 April 2012 # Ubuntu big data environment provides new insight into music industry trends [Performance](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/performance) --- Share the article Innovative London tech company Music Metric enables a comprehensive, up-to-the-hour view of artists’ popularity ## Summary Music Metric, an innovative London technology company, provides unique insight for music industry players and artists. It does this by analysing vast quantities of online data from music download sites, social networks, and blogs. To collect and process this information on an hourly basis, the organisation operates a large, three-tiered IT infrastructure. This is powered from end-to-end by Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, from cloud-based data collection systems, to the company’s Hadoop Big Data analysis cluster and data presentation tools. With a single OS image supporting Music Metric’s entire IT stack, development, management and support is far simpler. What’s more, Ubuntu’s long-term support ensures that the company’s critical systems are stable and constantly available. [Get in touch Interested in running Ubuntu in your organization?](https://ubuntu.com/about/contact-us/form) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Maximizing CPU efficiency and energy savings with IntelⓇ QuickAssist Technology on Ubuntu 24.04](https://canonical.com/blog/maximizing-cpu-efficiency-and-energy-savings-with-intel%e2%93%87-quickassist-technology-intel%e2%93%87-qat-on-ubuntu-24-04) In this post, we show that IntelⓇ QAT can be used in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to offload compute intensive workloads, maximizing CPU efficiency and driving cost savings. [Will French](https://canonical.com/blog/author/wfrench) 29 June 2024 [### Profile workloads on x86-64-v3 to enable future performance gains](https://canonical.com/blog/profile-workloads-on-x86-64-v3-to-enable-future-performance-gains) Ubuntu 23.10 experimental image with x86-64-v3 instruction set now available on Azure Canonical is enabling enterprises to evaluate the performance of their most critical... [Chris Schnabel](https://canonical.com/blog/author/chrisschnabel) 27 March 2024 [### Performance engineering on Ubuntu leaps forward with frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-performance-engineering-with-frame-pointers-by-default) Today Canonical is raising the bar for performance and observability by enabling frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. [Oliver Smith](https://canonical.com/blog/author/local-optimum) 13 December 2023 [### Optimising Ubuntu performance on amd64 architecture](https://canonical.com/blog/optimising-ubuntu-performance-on-amd64-architecture) Everyone wants the Linux distribution they are using to be fast. This is practically a content-free statement, of course: who would want their distro to be slow? But at the... [Michael Hudson-Doyle](https://canonical.com/blog/author/mwhudson) 12 December 2023