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Dublin-based IT services and consulting company, Origina today announced a significant expansion of its operations in Ireland, creating 350 high-value roles, supported by Enterprise Ireland, to strengthen its long-term presence in Ireland.

An untimely upgrade can cost your business more than support costs; it can also lead to lost revenue from downtime driven by unnecessary change. It is vital to stay aware of upcoming end of support dates so you can assess your software, consider your options before it’s too late, and plan your software roadmap accordingly. 

Managing technical debt isn’t about making sweeping changes overnight. It’s about taking back control with a clear, strategic IT plan that aligns technology decisions with business priorities. That starts by understanding where vendor-driven practices are creating debt and how those pressures impact your operations, budgets, and innovation capacity.

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.

Learn how Origina partnered with a large U.S.-based healthtech firm to overcome critical infrastructure challenges. This case study details a zero-downtime VMware migration, strengthened compliance, and improved scalability.

Origina has invested heavily in our own security, policies, processes and procedures, to ensure that all customer information is safe and secure and we do not increase customer risk holdings. We’re delighted that our continued diligence has paid off with the achievement of our Cyber Essentials Plus certification.

At Origina we see the challenge for VxRail customers - going from a totally integrated hardware and software stack, wrapped in predictability and stability to complete uncertainty. These customers have a lot of difficult and expensive decisions to make regarding how they might run their mission critical applications, on top of the VxRail technology powered by VMware software, in future. 

Software support renewals are a decision point, not a formality. From cost and risk to fit with your environment, renewal is the moment to ask whether OEM software support is still delivering value — or simply the default.

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.