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Seagate Gets Price Target Raise, Signs Reseller Pact

Disk-drive maker Seagate Technology (STX) got a price target hike from RBC Capital Markets on Tuesday, and the company also announced a reseller agreement with high-performance computing specialist SGI (SGI). Seagate Technology stock was up 1.3% in midday trading in the stock market today, just shy of a nearly 14-year high of 65 that it touched on Nov. 4. Seagate stock carries a solid IBD Relative Strength Rating of 90, putting it among the top

Defining ‘Big Data’ Is Often A Big Challenge

What is Big Data? The answer’s not so easy. Going back a couple of decades, the definition seemed to be to quantify what was meant by “big.” People have used terms like “Big Data,” “Very Large Data” or “Massive Data” with specific data volume measurements (gigabytes, terabytes) to quantify a definition of what constitutes a vast amount of electronic data. John Mashey, a former chief scientist for high-end computer maker Silicon Graphics (SGI),