Steve Dale's List: MSMIT

• art of an overall trend in enterprise IT that includes autonomic computing,
• autonomic computing
• utility computing,
• The

  usual goal of virtualization is to centralize administrative tasks while improving scalability and work loads.

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• Virtual
• machines
• paravirtual machine
• Virtualization

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• ADCs are often key components of diverse environments such as portals, ERP  systems, Microsoft Outlook and Office Communications Server (OCS), control  points for virtualization, adjuncts to enterprise service buses (ESBs) or a  service within service-oriented architecture (SOA) and, increasingly, as an  element of application development environments.
• advanced platform ADCs (AP ADCs),
• AP ADCs provide simplified deployment and extensibility, and are being deployed  between the Web server tier and the application or services tier (for SOA  servers).
• ADCs provide a set of functions to optimize enterprise application environments.  The market evolved from the load-balancing systems that were specifically  developed to ensure the availability and scalability of websites. Enterprises  use ADCs to optimize reliability, end-user performance, data center resource use  and security for a variety of enterprise applications.

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• Although scores of good books on color theory have been written — many even for non-designers — most working professionals just do not have the time to delve deeply into a study of the complexities of using color. The good news is that there are online resources that can help you create harmonious color themes without requiring advance knowledge in color theory. There are a few really good online resources such as

• Guy Kawasaki: The Art of the Start : The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
• Edward Tufte: Envisioning Information

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