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With such an ever-shifting landscape, the future of software maintenance and support can be a tricky destination to pin down at times but, regardless, how you get there should be up to you. At Origina, we believe that each step on the journey should make sense for your business specifically. 

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.

Several years back, Liberty Mutual found themselves at a crossroads in their journey to digital transformation. Liberty were looking to invest more in innovation and growth in order to take the next step, however they found themselves held back by OEM vendor hurdles.

The Cloudflare outage underscores the risks of over-concentrated digital infrastructure. Origina’s Chief Innovation Officer, Rowan O’Donoghue, warns that true resilience requires “choice-first” strategies that reduce dependency and keep enterprise control at the forefront.

Since the large-scale introduction of AI, its links to the increase in cyberattacks have been equally inescapable. The sophistication and pace of execution of cyberattacks has increased across the board, and much of this has been down to the weaponization of AI from cyber criminals. So, while we continue to enjoy the benefits that AI brings, we must also be aware of the risks we now face because of it.

Origina have been making a serious impact in the VMware space of late and, since the U.K. bank were about to be left high and dry by Broadcom on their VMware support, it made a lot of sense to bring in a support provider who specialized in seamless support transitions and placed an emphasis on security and stability above all else.