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Despite economic troubles, e-commerce continued to gain positive momentum throughout 2009, enjoying year-over-year growth rates hitting the mid teens. With no signs of a slowdown, now is the perfect time to consider implementing a domain name strategyto enhance your marketing campaigns and drive more traffic to your Web site. For instance, to complement your branded Web address, you might consider registering a series of descriptive domain names to drive more traffic to your main site and ultimately acquire new customers.

Herding Web Traffic Through Direct Domain Navigation

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Paglo, a remote support service provider. The purchase signals Citrix Online’s entrance into the IT management sector. Citrix Online has relaunched the Paglo service as GoToManage. That service is an integrated Web-based platform for monitoring, controlling and supporting attended or unattended IT infrastructure anywhere. The launch of the new service enables Citrix to meet accelerating demand from the SaaS-based IT management market, according to Citrix’s Elizabeth Cholawsky.

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Citrix Adds IT Management to ‘GoTo’ Line

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Paglo, a remote support service provider. The purchase signals Citrix Online’s entrance into the IT management sector. Citrix Online has relaunched the Paglo service as GoToManage. That service is an integrated Web-based platform for monitoring, controlling and supporting attended or unattended IT infrastructure anywhere. The launch of the new service enables Citrix to meet accelerating demand from the SaaS-based IT management market, according to Citrix’s Elizabeth Cholawsky.

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Citrix Adds IT Management to GoTo Line

Data management itself has never driven financial institutions to undertake a paradigm shift — it was the realm of the IT person hidden in the basement. However, in today’s climate of mistrust, risk management is an even greater priority, and data management programs are having their time in the sun as the industry realizes that a risk management system is only as good as the data filtering into it. So, data management and risk management go hand in hand, and the only way to “do” risk management is to capture and ensure the accuracy all of the related data.

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The Trembling Foundations of Financial Risk Management

A businessperson doesn’t necessarily understand technology. Nor does a technology expert necessarily understand business. But the two fields certainly do intersect in the world of ecommerce.

So how does an ecommerce merchant who is lacking in technological understanding, manage a successful online store?

For an answer to that question, Practical eCommerce turned to Stephanie Leffler, an ecommerce pioneer who co-founded MonsterCommerce, an early day hosted ecommerce platform that she sold in 2006 to Network Solutions. Her latest venture is Juggle.com, which provides factual information on the web’s most popular topics and products.

Leffler says the first thing to understand is that this is well-covered territory. “Few business owne…

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Managing the Technological Side of Your Business When You Don’t Understand Technology