Default config of Windows Event Logs Inadequate. What are alternatives?

Greetings and Thank you for Your Help  :-)

I am the server manager.  I need to ensure the safety of my servers, and i want to easily find events that will tell what has happened over the weekend.  I want to ensure my logs will be safe no matter what (not just on another drive on the same machine, and not just backedup at midnight ---- I want them on another machine (a very secure machine) each hour or perhaps even DIRECTLY logged there.

I'm not interested in log parser, and yes, I do have auditing jacked up to log most things.  Note that I have not asked any question about FWs, IDS, or other security measures.  I'm mainly interested in logging what happens.

What are my options?  What are the pros/cons?  Can you get eventlogs to log directly to another machine?  Is there some software (turnkey) for all this?

Thanks again so very much!,
K