Some think so, including GreenPages Technology Solutions CEO Ron Dupler. Monday he was the first speaker at their annual technology summit.  He urged the 100+ CIOs and CTOs that the time is now to seize upon cloud technologies.

“Cloud is here now!” affirmed Dupler in keynote address starting the conference, which has become a summer tradition for information technology (IT) professionals trying to keep their heads above waters in the rapidly changing world of IT.  “It is real. It is happening. And we all need to seize the day and deal with it.”

Dupler said IT officers who did not embrace the cloud would be left behind, and said they were similar to doomsayers of old.

Dupler, for his part, said that IT professionals who dismiss the cloud are  “trying to perpetuate the past” and ultimately are either going to “change their mind” or find themselves “working in new fields.”

The Kittery, Maine-headquartered GreenPages was an early cloud adopter and has been at the front of the cloud computing services paradigm shift advising customers to move to a fully virtualized IT environment in preparation for the cloud computing services era.

Technology research, Gartner, has projected that global cloud computing services revenue will hit $148.8 billion in 2014.

Dupler counseled IT executives attending the summit to look at cloud computing as an “opportunity” instead of a “threat.”

“In the future this is about integrating service platforms,” said Dupler. “It is helping you turn internal IT into a service platform itself and integrating various service platforms.”

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