Azure outage draws silence: big consultancies avoid vendor concentration risk talk
DavidLinthicum · x · 2026-11-15
David Linthicum searched for public guidance from major consulting firms after the Microsoft/Azure outage and found none addressing what enterprises should learn from it.
Instead, the big firms stuck to generic resilience, cloud transformation, Microsoft alliance, and business-continuity language — publicly avoiding any challenge to Microsoft dependency or vendor concentration risk. The silence, he argues, is telling.
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