Evan Schuman has covered IT issues for a lot longer than he'll ever admit. The founding editor of retail technology site StorefrontBacktalk, he's been a columnist for CBSNews.com, RetailWeek, Computerworld, and eWeek, and his byline has appeared in titles ranging from BusinessWeek, VentureBeat, and Fortune to The New York Times, USA Today, Reuters, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, The Detroit News, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Evan is a frequent contributor to CIO, CSO, Network World and InfoWorld.
Evan won a gold 2025 AZBEE award in the Enterprise News category for this story: Design flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
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The vendor said that the problematic VeloCloud Orchestrator functionality was ‘intended to be for internal use only.’ Analysts stress that intent is not enough.
Analysts and consultants see it as taking a more conservative fiscal approach as OpenAI prepares for an imminent IPO.
A new report from Gartner argues that by 2028, misconfigured AI will shut down the national critical infrastructure in a G20 country. Consultants counter that it will likely happen much sooner.
Analysts and AWS watchers agree that the roughly 15,000 cuts are caused by ‘culture’, but there is disagreement about what that actually means.
The Cloudflare hiccup involved a sequencing change that confused some systems, and Cloudflare quickly walked it back, but the incident showcases enterprise network fragility in an uncomfortably concrete way.
The problem is that without Microsoft input, SAP systems will soon not deliver MS-level performance. But if an emergency only lasts a few weeks, analysts said, the plan might be viable.
Microsoft’s partnership with Nvidia and Anthropic continues the incestuous couplings that may force changes in how IT makes AI choices.
It’s not a matter of being better than Nvidia, because Nvidia chips are becoming virtually impossible to get.
