Hadoop has been in the spotlight for the last few weeks, thanks to a number of launches and developments we’ll get to later. Today the news comes from Datameer, a startup that offers a big data analytics solutions based on Apache Hadoop. Datameer, founded by Ajay Anad, former Director of Product Management for Hadoop and Cloud Computing at Yahoo and Stefan Groschupf, the founder of Katta, has secured $9.25 million in funding. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Redpoint Ventures.

Some more info:

“Kleiner partner Ellen Pao will be joining Datameer’s board. This brings the startup’s total funding to $12 million.”

Datameer’s offering is based the same concept that makes Hadoop so attractive: it lets customers analyze big data fast, and with minimal technical expertise required coding-wise.

A few days ago, Datameer’s end user analytics solution got another push. The start-up’ support for the new EMC Greenplum Hadoop distribution got certified. This means customers can now deploy Datameer’s solution on top of EMC Greenplum HD.

Going back to the Hadoop launches at EMC World 2011, five companies including EMC, NetApp, SnapLogic and others introduced their addition to the Hadoop ecosystem – one that has been partiuclary active lately as the business analytics segment accelerates forward.

As companies are becoming keener on monetizing and gaining insight from their big data, developers such as Datameer will see their customer bases growing, gain traction and function and further develop services around big data and analysis down the road. Business analytics is sub-market under the big data umbrella, and this week’s SAPphire 2011 conference centered on this very topic.

The cloud and big data are coming together as both industries evolve – and this was the exact theme of the earlier EMC World 2011 conference. The open-source cloud is a particularly hot topic , considering Rackspace has OpenStack, VMware has Cloud Foundry and a lot of new players are hopping aboard.