{"id":415102,"date":"2021-09-21T20:52:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=415102"},"modified":"2021-09-22T17:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:58:20","slug":"cloud-2021-in-conversation-with-datacentrixs-jaap-scholten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/415102-cloud-2021-in-conversation-with-datacentrixs-jaap-scholten.html","title":{"rendered":"Cloud 2021 \u2014 In conversation with Datacentrix&#8217;s Jaap Scholten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaap Scholten is the Head of Group Hybrid IT Strategy at Datacentrix, a leading hybrid IT systems integrator and managed services provider.<\/p>\n<p>Scholten has over 30 years of experience in ICT and has headed up eNetworks Internet Service Provider since 2003. eNetworks became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Datacentrix in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Jaap translates business requirements into technology-driven for the agriculture, retail, medical, and insurance industries, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>In this interview, Scholten explains why Datacentrix pushes a data-first approach to digitalisation rather than a cloud-first approach.<\/p>\n<p>He also outlined the timeframe that businesses can expect to implement Datacentrix Hybrid IT.<\/p>\n<p>Scholten also indicated how IT and business costs are blending and that looking at either in isolation misses essential considerations.<\/p>\n<p>He detailed how business and IT is becoming increasingly intertwined, explaining that Datacentrix Hybrid IT is shifting the IT conversation to a business conversation.<\/p>\n<p>The full discussion with Datacentrix Head of Group Hybrid IT Strategy Jaap Scholten is embedded below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OHQZn_qZXac\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/414326-datacentrix-and-hpe-are-the-main-sponsors-of-the-cloud-2021-conference.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Datacentrix and HPE are the main partners of the Cloud 2021 Conference<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaap Scholten explains why Datacentrix pushes a data-first approach to digitalisation rather than a cloud-first approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":415110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[71190,58526,11975],"class_list":["post-415102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-cloud-2021","tag-hpe-datacentrix","tag-jaap-scholten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415266,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415102\/revisions\/415266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}