Hadoop-powered big data analytics companies Karmasphere and Think Big Analytic announced today at the Hadoop Summit they’re partnering up to develop and provide joint offerings.  These products will be designed for companies that leverage Hadoop to carry out unstructured data analysis.

“Our partnership with Karmasphere offers technological capabilities that map to our clients’ business objectives,” says Rick Farnell, co-founder and president of Think Big Analytics, “We build advanced analytics solutions on top of Big Data and Hadoop. Karmasphere delivers critical products that allow our consultants and clients to visualize and interact with data in the cluster.”

Karmasphere currently offers Karmasphere Analyst, a visual workspace that lets users analyze big data using SQL and pre-packaged heuristics, and Studio Professional Edition, a graphical MapReduce development environment. Think Big Analytics offers Apache Hadoop services to enterprise.

SiliconANGLE interviewed Shevek Mankin, CTO and co-founder of Karmasphere last year at Hadoop Summit (video below). He discussed the outlook of big data, and how companies need to start asking the right questions about their needs, datacenters and analytics.

This year, Hadoop Summit – and the industry at large – is also seeing its fair share of open-source cloud developments.  Cloudera announced Enterprise 3.5, the latest version of its Hadoop management suite. The subscription service comes with several new features, including real-time monitoring of Hadoop systems, a consolidated user Activity Monitor, and a jobs history viewer.

Yahoo also had some big news this week: its core Hadoop team separated from the company to form Hortonworks, a new startup backed by Benchmark Capital.  The investment firm will provide funding, while partner Rob Bearden will be assuming the position of COO at the new spin-off company.

In other news from Hadoop Summit, MapR Technologies announced the MapR Advantage Partner Program.  The initial ecosystem currently compromises of Karmasphere, Think Big Analytics, Concurrent, DataMeer, Digital Reasoning and several others.