Several solution provider attendees at the NexGen Cloud Conference said they are intrigued by the technology but are still too small to take advantage of the promise of software-defined data centers.

One solution provider said that customers still like to have control over their infrastructure, and so many are slow to adopt cloud computing or software-defined data center technologies.

Customers still prefer to keep their data regional, said Mike Walder, president of Secure Technology, a Honolulu, Hawaii-based solution provider.

"We're heading towards cloud and software-defined data centers," Walder told CRN. "But it takes time for customers in an insulated market to adopt."

A lot of solution providers are just now getting started in terms of software-defined data center technologies, Walder said. "Whether it's software-defined or 'ill-defined' or whatever you call it, it's still early," he said. "I would think that scale will drive customers to this eventually. If you want to scale your infrastructure four time or ten times, how do you do it with traditional infrastructures?"

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