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Books

Technology books by Anthony Velte and Dr. Toby Velte.

A selection of published titles on cloud computing, virtualization, networking, e-business, and enterprise sustainability — primarily with McGraw-Hill and its Osborne and Education imprints. Several have run to multiple editions and translations. Ordered below by scholarly citations; complete catalogs for each author are linked at the bottom of the page.

Bibliography

Selected titles, ordered by Google Scholar citations for the primary English edition. Several titles have additional editions or translations not summed here.

Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach — book cover
McGraw-Hill2010

Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach

By Anthony Velte, Dr. Toby Velte, & Robert Elsenpeter

The definitive practitioner text on cloud computing, written at the moment the enterprise was trying to figure out whether cloud was a fad or a transition. Cited more than 1,500 times and translated into half a dozen languages.

1,571citations
CzechPortugueseSpanish
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Green IT — book cover
McGraw-Hill2008

Green IT

Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line

By Anthony Velte, Dr. Toby Velte, & Robert Elsenpeter

Enterprise sustainability for IT decision makers — written in 2008, a decade before ESG reporting became a board-level obligation. Still cited by researchers working on energy-aware computing and sustainable data-center design.

241citations
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Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V — book cover
McGraw-Hill2009

Microsoft Virtualization with Hyper-V

By Anthony Velte, Dr. Toby Velte, & Jason A. Kappel

The go-to text when enterprises were consolidating physical server fleets onto Hyper-V. Written for the IT operators who had to plan, roll out, and support virtualized workloads in production — covers Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and operations tooling.

198citations
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Cisco: A Beginner's Guide — book cover
McGraw-Hill Education20135 editions

Cisco: A Beginner's Guide

By Anthony Velte & Dr. Toby Velte

Over five editions and two decades, this became one of the most widely used entry points into Cisco networking — taught in universities and bought by new hires at telecoms the world over.

40citations
CzechSpanish
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eBusiness: A Beginner's Guide — book cover
McGraw-Hill Osborne2000

eBusiness: A Beginner's Guide

By Dr. Toby Velte & Robert Elsenpeter

Written at the dawn of the commercial internet — a hands-on guide for the generation of enterprises standing up their first e-commerce sites, addressing traffic generation, QoS, and transactional security.

26citations
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Optical Networking: A Beginner's Guide — book cover
McGraw-Hill Osborne2001

Optical Networking: A Beginner's Guide

By Dr. Toby Velte & Robert Elsenpeter

Hands-on implementation guide for professionals new to optical networking — covers SONET, DWDM, bandwidth design, and security protocols for Cisco, Juniper, and Nortel optical solutions.

25citations
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AI at Work — book cover
KDP2026Recent

AI at Work

Boost Productivity and Stay Ahead in Your Career

By Anthony Velte

A practitioner's guide to working alongside AI — for the knowledge workers, managers, and professionals who want to stay relevant and get more done without hype, fear, or vendor spin.

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Complete catalogs.

For the full list of titles from each author — including earlier editions, translations, and co-authored work not featured above — visit the author pages on Amazon and Google Scholar.