Some stuff I am reading and have been directed to

Think Quarterly - Google's 'magazine'. Has interesting articles and the formatting/fonts are nice on a browser. http://thinkquarterly.co.uk/ (A companion site)

Scaling DotNet - blog post on some techniques for making DotNet sites faster, better. Fairly technical at developer level. And this link also from that page which initiated the post - MySpace’s death spiral

Stack Overflow Architecture Update - A DotNet article on how Stack Overflow makes their site fast and optimized.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud - Updates on Amazon's VPC service to include virtualizing your entire network in the Cloud.

Oracle Identity Management Deployment Planning - good resource on Identity Management and not just for Oracle