The audit function is a potential tool as part of a corporate compliance program. Thin Server Administration Cost IDC's research has made us a strong proponent of features that reduce the operational costs of storage. We find the majority of cost occurs in managing storage, not in the initial capital purchase. The NCA's transparent operation, no general-purpose OS, RAID, and simple disk expansion alone will provide high value compared with conventional Web proxy servers. Among the challenges faced by network caches like NetApp's are the barriers they create to usage tracking and personalization as well as concerns about copyright protection.
Most Web sites do some form of usage tracking to see who is hitting their sites.
The statistics include when and what is viewed. When Web pages are served out of cache, however, this traffic information is not typically available to the source Web site. As a result, popular Web sites that are likely to be cached will under report the number of ad impressions generated. In addition, these cached ads cannot be personalized. The industry is working on a way to pass usage data back to the source site.