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Web Analytics Process the Data Vortex | Analyze This
By Bruce Boardman
Web analytic products and services can help you process a deluge of raw site visitor data, revealing truths about customer behavior.

NWC Project: Web Analytics

Join us for a special behind-the-scenes look at Bruce Boardman's review of Web statistics engines.

IT Minute: Bruce Boardman reveals the ins and outs of testing products on a live server (in this case, Network Computing's and Network Magazine's Web sites).

Find out how your votes on our test environment stacked up against those of your peers.

IT Minute: Tune into an audio interview with CMP's IT department to find out how our parent company put Network Computing's Real-World Labs to work in their evaluation of Web analytics products.

Thanks to everyone who submitted descriptions of their Web analytic experiences. For your enjoyment and edification, we've compiled the best entries into a reader travelogue.

Review: Web Analytics Services | Inside Information
By Bruce Boardman
We tested 10 Web analytics services to get the lowdown on our NWC and CMP sites. Though most offerings impressed, our Editor's Choice edged out the rest with its all-around good analytics, ease of use and strong support.

Preparing for the Americans with Disabilities Act | Equal Access Computing
By Curtis Franklin Jr., Tim Wilson and Martin S. Ebel
As companies prepare for compliance with ADA, IT must implement modifications that won't compromise security or functionality. Find out what you need to know and how to prepare.

Workshops

Preparing for a Network Audit | Are You Covered?
By Mike Dalton
Learn how you can conduct internal network audits to ensure your systems are in compliance.

Centerfold: Quad/Graphics Embraces SSL | Reconstructing the VPN
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Printer Quad/Graphics is gradually replacing its vulnerable IPsec VPN with new SSL-based technology, which is more secure and less labor-intensive.

Sneak Previews

Coradiant's TrueSight TS-100 offers Real-Time Perspective
By Christopher T. Beers
Get nearly real-time views of network performance without adding to your server's workload.

Entellium's eSalesForce Simplifies the Sales Process
By Dan Koffler
Hosted applications offer sales management and collaboration.

Certance's CP 3100 D2D2T offers Virtual Tape for SMBs
By Dan Koffler
Will small and midsize businesses find this affordable virtual tape technology adaptable to their needs?

Departments

Last Mile
Edited By Bradley F. Shimmin and Tim Wilson
This edition: the Top 11 good things about being named version 2.0; a Goth makeover; and do-it-yourself furniture.

Quick Takes
By NWC Editors
This edition looks at nLayers' InSight, MegaPath Networks' Small Biz Hosted GRAS, Xtradyne's Web Services Domain Boundary Controller and Canon's Color ImageRunner C3220.

Letters
By NWC Readers
Ron Schmelzer feels that Web services were never meant to replace tightly coupled high-performance transaction systems.

Columns

Air Time: The Battle for Wireless Radio Spectrum | Regulating the Airwaves
By Dave Molta
We've had about a hundred years to figure out how best to regulate this invisible resource. Are we getting any better at it?.

Reality IT: Encouraging After-Hours Support | IT Never Sleeps
By Hunter Metatek
Motivating your IT staff to contribute around the clock if and when needed isn't always about money. It's about access.

Developing Trends: Balancing IT Scheduling, Budgeting and Customization | Giving It to Them Straight
By Don MacVittie
If you give in to all the demands of your colleagues or supervisors, you're not being "part of the team," you're risking your project.

BuzzCut: New Generation of eServers Offers Major Leap in Performance | IBM Packs New Unix Server Punch
By Tim Wilson
IBM gets a second chance to become a leader in the Unix server arena with its eServers, which are based on the company's p5 processor.

BuzzCut: Network Associates Splitting Up | Merger Fails to Pan Out
By Peter Morrissey
The "marriage" of Network General and McAffee is over. Will the two split-up companies find success on their own?

BuzzCut: IE--You're Not Alone | Mozilla Brower Not Invulnerable
By Curtis Franklin Jr.
Although a patch was quickly released to cover a vulnerability, has Mozilla lost the faith of some of its users?

BuzzCut: Firm's Third-Party Support Vendors Bypass Its Security Measures | StorageTek's Strange Case
By Don MacVittie
Would you do business with a company that sued within its own "ecosystem"?

FUDBusters: Data Gathering in the Corporate Environment | The Road to Hell...
By Bradley F. Shimmin
Are advertising-driven search companion tools from Google, MSN and others a threat to corporate security?

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