# Velte Publishing — velte.com

> Velte Publishing — books, writing, and applied work on enterprise technology and AI. By Anthony (Tony) Velte and Dr. Toby Velte, with 3,000+ combined scholarly citations. Published primarily with McGraw-Hill (and its Osborne and Education imprints), with Harvard Business Review contributions.

## About

Velte Publishing is a body of work on the systems that run the modern enterprise — security, cloud, networking, virtualization, and now artificial intelligence. Authored by Anthony Velte and Dr. Toby Velte across three decades of building, advising, teaching, and publishing.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/velte-publishing-inc

## Authors

### Anthony (Tony) Velte

- Credentials: CISSP, CISA
- Career: 30+ years enterprise IT; Fortune 500 advisory (Target, 3M, U.S. Bank, UnitedHealthcare)
- Publishing: 12+ technology books, primarily with McGraw-Hill (Osborne and Education imprints)
- Current: Founder of LocalStar Digital (GEO/SEO agency); Fortune 500 advisor on AI implementation, governance, and security; building AI-powered systems for client and advisory engagements
- Google Scholar: 2,296 citations, h-index 14, i10-index 15 — https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jE47UJ8AAAAJ
- Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/Anthony-Velte/e/B001H6OK98
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyvelte/
- Military: US Army & National Guard veteran

### Dr. Toby Velte

- Education: Ph.D. Computational Neuroscience (University of Minnesota); Harvard postdoctoral fellowship; Kellogg MBA; Oxford AI Diploma; London Business School Sloan Fellow
- Current: London Business School faculty — teaches "Building an AI Business: From Idea to Impact"; Oxford AI Symposium speaker on agentic AI enterprise deployment
- Career: Senior leadership at Google, AWS, and Microsoft
- Publishing: 16 technology books with McGraw-Hill; Harvard Business Review contributor
- Founder: Verilytix AI (parent of Probility AI and Budscout AI)
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HKZQ1NIAAAAJ
- Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B002IU0CM6
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobyvelte/
- London Business School profile: https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/contributors/toby-velte

## Pages

- `/` — Overview of the founders, credentials, and body of work.
- `/about` — Detailed background, founders section, and what makes the work distinct.
- `/tony` — Anthony Velte: bio, current work, career highlights, publishing, external links.
- `/toby` — Dr. Toby Velte: bio, current work, career highlights, publishing, external links.
- `/books` — Selected bibliography ordered by Google Scholar citations.

## Notable works

- *Cloud Computing: A Practical Approach* — Anthony Velte & Dr. Toby Velte (McGraw-Hill, 2010) — 1,500+ scholarly citations; translated into Czech, Portuguese, and Spanish.
- *Green IT* — Anthony Velte & Dr. Toby Velte (McGraw-Hill, 2008) — written a decade before ESG became a board-level obligation.
- *Cisco: A Beginner's Guide* — Anthony Velte & Dr. Toby Velte (McGraw-Hill, 2013) — five editions, taught in universities worldwide.

## Contact

- tony@velte.com
- anthony@velte.com
- toby@velte.com

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