Here are some books that I think are worth their while and use regularly so they - at least to me - have proven their usefulness in day-to-day operations and in thinking about IT decision-making and strategy. So if you have some time to spare - in this world the odds of that are rather small - and you are up for a good read, don't hesitate to pick one up from the list below.
( I am not endorsed in any way by either the authors or publishers.)
The Back of the Napkin
Dan Roam
Archimate 2.1 Specification
The Open Group
Socialnomics
Erik Qualman
Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher and William Ury
Getting Things Done
David Allen
The Speed Reading Book
Tony Buzan
Cloud and Virtual Storage Networking
Greg Schulz
Engineering Long-Lasting Software
An Agile Approach Using Saas & Cloud Computing
Armando Fox & David Patterson
Mastering VMware vSphere 5
Scott Lowe
Scalability Rules- 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites
Martin L. Abbott & Michael T. Ficher
Vmware vSpere 5 Cluster Technical Deepdive
Duncan Epping & Frank Denneman
VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS technical deepdive
Duncan Epping & Frank Denneman
VMware vSphere Design
Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe, Maish Saidel-Keesing
The Goal : A process of Ongoing Improvement
Goldratt, Eliyahu
Cloud Application Architectures
George Reese
Cloud Security and Privacy
Tim Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy, Shahed Latif
Snow Leopard Server Developer Reference
Daniel Eran Dilger
The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor
David Chisnall
