Jim Rapoza

A big selling point for server appliances is ease of management— these systems make it possible for businesses to deploy core server applications such as e-mail and firewalls quickly and manage them centrally from a browser rather than dealing with multiple configurations and disparate management interfaces. Click here to read the full review of Nitix. […]

I recently attended a meeting in a conference room that had only a couple of available wired network connections and no wireless network access. I snagged one of the wired network connections for my iBook and offered to share my connection wirelessly with other users in the meeting. Several thankful meeting participants hooked up to […]

OmniTrust Security Systems Inc.s Protected Browser, released last month, provides DRM-like protection for Web pages, making it impossible to save, print, e-mail or even screen-capture protected Web pages. Click here to read the full review of OmniTrust Protected Browser. 2 OmniTrust Security Systems Inc.s Protected Browser, released last month, provides DRM-like protection for Web pages, […]

For companies that deal heavily in digital media, there are high-end digital asset management systems to help them track, control and access their entire digital catalog. But what about companies that arent heavy-duty graphics houses but still have a lot of digital images to manage and cant invest in a high-end system? Extensis Portfolio 7 […]

Are you unhappy? Depressed? Considering drastic steps to change your situation? Im not talking about your personal life; Im talking about how you feel about your job in IT. If you answered yes to any of the questions above, you are definitely not alone. In fact, the recent 2004 IT Staffing and Compensation Guide: Human […]

High-level business intelligence analysis can be difficult, especially if it means staring at pages of text and comparing them with spreadsheet information. It would be a lot easier if one could view this kind of information using a three-dimensional graphical analysis tool, one that shows relationships among data elements that you might not have discerned […]

Much of the information coming out of the Inbox conference—held in San Jose, Calif., earlier this month—focused on how to fix what have become very big problems with e-mail. The suggested improvements and innovations make sense to me, but, in the back of my mind, Im thinking: People will make use of these new features […]

Of the three products reviewed in this package, Omnitures SiteCatalyst 10 has probably seen the least obvious improvements. Of course, when we reviewed SiteCatalyst 8 two years ago, it already had many of the features—such as visual path analysis—that competing products are just now starting to add. Click here to read the full review of […]

Given that every enterprise has at least a Web site and that most also have an intranet, portal or e-commerce presence, one would think that Web analysis tools would be higher on more organizations must-have lists. For the most part, however, these products have been overlooked. Even among companies that have them, site analysis tools […]

WebSideStory is among the pioneers of service-based Web analytics, providing one of the first embedded code-based services in its popular HitBox service. However, the product has been falling behind some competitors in richness of features, so, with its May release, WebSideStory went beyond a simple update: The company has launched a completely rebranded product, HBX […]

With the release last month of WebTrends 7, NetIQ has significantly upgraded its venerable Web site analysis application into a platform that offers companies the most flexibility in analyzing Web site traffic of any product weve seen. Click here to read the full review of WebTrends 7. 2 With the release last month of WebTrends […]

One of the major concerns in technology nowadays is that too much data is being gathered about us—that the government, corporate America and various unscrupulous persons are using powerful data-analysis tools to invade our privacy. This is a valid concern, and many eWEEK columnists have written about the need to staunchly and vigilantly protect personal […]