10 06, 2010

TWIST Startup Meetup in Perth

By | 2010-06-10T06:31:08+00:00 June 10th, 2010|Uncategorized, WebSpy News Update|0 Comments

Jack Andrys, CEO of WebSpy (longtime sponsor of This Week in Startups), organized the first This Week in Startups Meetup in Perth, Australia, on the 8th of June 2010, at WebSpy’s headquarter. The meet-up attracted just under 20 attendees, making it the largest in Australia. A great mix of people showed up to present their [...]

27 05, 2010

How to report on bandwidth utilization using Cisco devices

By | 2010-05-27T07:59:13+00:00 May 27th, 2010|Firewall Analysis, FlowMonitor, How To, Reports, System Administration, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Vantage, WebSpy|1 Comment

Today I was speaking to a customer that had the following reporting request. "I would like to know how much of my bandwidth is being eaten by each protocol. I will then use this information to determine if circuit may need to be increased due to increased traffic". This customer was collecting syslog messages from a Cisco Firewall, then using WebSpy Vantage to generate reports. There's a simpler method.

21 05, 2010

How WebSpy Vantage uses your CPUs

By | 2010-05-21T07:02:32+00:00 May 21st, 2010|Reports, System Administration, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Vantage, WebSpy|0 Comments

I’m frequently asked how WebSpy Vantage utilizes a systems CPU resources. Sometimes you may notice Vantage utilizing 100% of your machine's CPU power, and other times it will be hardly touched. So here is an overview of how the software works internally so you can understand when your CPUs will and won’t be pushed.

20 05, 2010

Vantage Update 2.2.0.43

By | 2010-05-20T06:45:45+00:00 May 20th, 2010|IronPort, Loaders, Log File Analysis, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft Threat Management Gateway, Software Updates, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, Vantage, Web Module, WebSpy|0 Comments

We've just released an auto update for WebSpy Vantage (Premium, Giga and Ultimate) as well as the Web Module. This is a great update for Vantage Ultimate users as we've introduced a new feature/tab into the Web Module called 'Dynamic Reports'. Here's the full list of changes since the last auto update (2.2.0.32 on the 14th April 2010).

12 05, 2010

Dedicated WebSpy and Forefront TMG pages – Everything you need to know about TMG Log Reporting

By | 2010-05-12T04:14:53+00:00 May 12th, 2010|How To, Microsoft Threat Management Gateway, Reports, Sales and Marketing, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized, WebSpy|0 Comments

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) popularity is starting to pick up. WebSpy added support for analyzing and reporting on TMG logs even before the public release and have been improving our compatibility ever since. […]

11 05, 2010

How and When WebSpy Vantage’s Web Server Reporting Beats Google Analytics

By | 2010-05-11T10:36:01+00:00 May 11th, 2010|How To, Sales and Marketing, Tips and Best Practices, Uncategorized|0 Comments

I’m actually not trying to compare WebSpy Vantage with Google Analytics (GA), it’s like comparing apples and oranges. Both solutions provide powerful ways of tracking how visitors find your site and how they navigate through it, ideally giving you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. However, GA is a pure web analytics [...]