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Featured in VMblog.com’s 2026 Prediction Series, Rowan O’Donoghue examines why enterprises are rethinking long-standing dependencies in their IT environments—and how a growing push for independence is reshaping resilience, risk, and control.

For Forbes Technology Council, Tomás O’Leary looks at the cost of treating technology as something to be endlessly rented rather than strategically owned. He outlines practical steps leaders can take to break free from dependency-driven models and rebuild autonomy, flexibility, and confidence in their technology decisions.

Rather than cloud or AI, Rowan O’Donoghue argues that the software industry’s most enduring invention has been the forced upgrade cycle. In his Forbes Technology Council article, he examines how this model has constrained enterprise choice for decades — and why IT leaders are increasingly questioning vendor-driven roadmaps in favor of more deliberate, value-led strategies.

Speaking to HSJ, Tomás O’Leary examines the structural forces that leave public sector organizations beholden to large technology suppliers. He argues that without stronger regulation of enterprise pricing and clearer accountability, vendor dependency will continue to undermine innovation, choice, and value for money across the health system.

Origina CIO Rowan O’Donoghue joined LBC News to explain how the Cloudflare outage triggered widespread service disruption — and why concentrated infrastructure creates cascading risks for organisations of every size.

Rowan O’Donoghue spoke with BBC Newsday about the Cloudflare outage, highlighting how incidents like this expose systemic dependency and why leaders must rethink resilience across their digital infrastructure.

Cloudflare’s disruption showed how one technical fault can send shockwaves across the digital economy. Origina’s Rowan O’Donoghue urges executives to confront systemic concentration risk and bolster resilience across essential services.

When Cloudflare went down, much of the internet went with it. Speaking to Computing, Rowan O’Donoghue uses the outage to illustrate how hyperscaler dependency and forced upgrade cycles have traded resilience for scale — and why enterprises need strategies that rebalance innovation with stability and control.