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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.

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.

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.

Growing complexity and operational constraints are prompting organizations to reassess how they manage vulnerability exposure and adopt more contextual, risk-aware approaches to resilience.

This Gartner research presents considerations relevant to organizations facing complex vulnerability exposure challenges, and we believe it can prompt useful evaluation of how remediation efforts align with system stability, threat conditions, and cross-team collaboration.