The innovation behind Hadoop-powered data processing and analysis has scored a number of headlines for big data, and momentum continues to grow for the open-source software elephant in the enterprise. Highlights from the Hadoop Summit 20012.

With EMC World 2012 in full swing in Las Vegas, there is news of Facebook using 20 petabytes of EMC storage, VCE announcing new capabilities, and a Greenplum conference for big data science happening next door to EMC World.

MapR Technologies announced a Hadoop distribution today, which opens up Hadoop by allowing users to leverage a broad array of standard commands, tools and applications. MapR also recently became a member of the Open Data Center Alliance.

Intel (INTC) announced an expansion of its Xeon processor portfolio with new products designed to address a broad and emerging set of server requirements and provide IT managers with additional choice and flexibility.

At Interop, interconnect solutions provider Mellanox Technologies (MLNX) showcased its expanded Infiniband technologies, and announced a collaboration with Eucalyptus on high-performance cloud infrastructure..

Fusion-io (FIO) powers Internet radio from Pandora Media (P), Oracle (ORCL) selected by CISDI for cloud platform, Teradata (TDC) delivers SAS high performance analytics appliance.

Intel acquires Cray Interconnect program, DataDirect Networks selected by NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer, SGI UV used for Big Data problems.

IBM acquires Vivisimo, Dell and Internet2 partner for collaborative research, Akamai announces succession plan as CEO Paul Sagan plans to retire.

Cloud infrastructure company GoGrid wants to make it easier for customers to run "Big Data" analytic tools to leverage large datasets. Today it unveiled GoGrid Big Data Solution, a new offering that enables customers to use NoSQL database...