Month: February 2018

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Poor UX Design and Hawaii’s False Missile Alert

DID POOR USER-EXPERIENCE DESIGN CAUSE THE FALSE ALARM IN HAWAII?

Hawaiian officials have much to consider as they draft new safeguards on emergency management systems in response to the missile scare. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency (HEMA) assures a full analysis will bring forth a better process, and the employee responsible for clicking the wrong button has been reassigned.

But, was the false alarm truly a problem of human-error or could the problem have been caused by poor user-experience (UX) design?

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Top 3 Facts About The Gender Pay Gap Debate

A CLOSER LOOK AT THE GENDER PAY GAP

The debate on gender pay gap has fueled many healthy conversations in organizations everywhere. And while a solution has yet to be discovered, that alone shouldn’t hinder our ability to understand how and why the gender pay gap exists.

Join VPLS, as we brief you on the Top 3 Facts about the recent gender pay gap debate and the role it plays within the Tech industry.

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Evocative Announces Acquisition of Cyberverse, Inc. and Expansion into The Los Angeles, Phoenix and Dallas Data Center Markets

Evocative is expanding its footprint and bringing its highly secure edge colocation and hybrid IT solutions to the Phoenix and Dallas Markets.

San Jose, CA, February 20, 2018 – Evocative, LLC, a leading provider of secure compliant Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has acquired Cyberverse, Inc., one of the pioneering companies in Internet services.

Cyberverse was founded in 1994 by Greg Domeno and Jay Smith and over the past two and a half decades has earned the reputation of being one of the most trusted Internet infrastructure services companies. Jay Smith and the entire Cyberverse team will continue with the company. This acquisition provides Evocative additional capacity in downtown Los Angeles and expands its footprint to the Phoenix and Dallas markets.

Newly Acquired Tier III Carrier Neutral Data Center

The newly acquired Tier III carrier neutral data center is located at 600 West 7th Street Los Angeles, CA in the heart of downtown and is owned and operated by Digital Realty Trust. Through the acquisition, the company now has a major presence with Aligned Data Centers in Phoenix, Arizona and Plano, Texas. The newly acquired data centers will be connected to the other 4 Evocative data centers. This is Evocative’s 4th acquisition during the last 12 months, expanding its reach as a national data center operator. The newly added edge data and compute center adds an additional 30,000 Square Feet and 2.0 MW of capacity with expansion available to 100,000 Square Feet and 10 MW of capacity across its existing national footprint. This addition brings the company’s total capacity to over 170,000 Square Feet and 8.7 MW of IT load. All locations will be connected via multiple 40+ Gbps transport services and will create a nationwide IP backbone enabling the company to rollout active-active disaster recovery, managed distributed private cloud and complex hosting, distributed storage as well as provide a direct connection to the major 4 public cloud platforms.

Evocative is the trusted guardian of Internet infrastructure to over 570 clients with a roaster of Fortune 500, international and some of the best-known Internet brands. Evocative is well-positioned to handle flexible lab and high-density computing requirements alongside mission critical compliant colocation services. All of the company’s data centers are carrier neutral with direct access to at least 15+ native carriers and dark and lit services to major interconnection hubs.

Our Data Centers Meet Rigorous Security and Compliance Requirements Including HIPPA and PCIDSS

Evocative’s facilities are HIPAA, PCIDSS, SSAE16, SSAE-18, SOC 2 and ISAE3402 certified, meeting rigorous security and compliance requirements. In addition, they have consistently achieved a 100% uptime availability over the past 10 years. Enterprises, large and small businesses, and startups can benefit from Evocative’s comprehensive suite of fully customizable pay per use colocation services; managed services; public cloud interconnection, private and hybrid cloud solutions; complex hosting; network and security services.

Evocative can provide visibility in terms of large scale power usage down to virtual machine resource allocation. A true pay-per-use Internet services company. “Our primary goal as a trusted pay-per-use Internet services company is to listen to our clients and provide them the most effective solutions at fair prices. We’ve known the Cyberverse team for years and shared the same passion for providing quality services and superior customer experience. We’d like to take this opportunity to welcome our new clients, employees, and partners to the Evocative family,” said Arman Khalili, Evocative’s CEO. “This acquisition is in line with our expansion plans and our acquisitions earlier this year. We look forward to continuing to grow the company both organically and through additional acquisitions.” “I am thrilled with this acquisition and our new mission moving forward with the rest of the Evocative team,” said Jay Smith, Cyberverse’s Vice President. “We share the same views on providing top-notch, high availability colocation and hosting services, while still maintaining the personalized customer service and support that our clients have come to know over the last 25 years.”

About Evocative Evocative is a North American company and an owner and operator of secure, compliant, highly available data and compute centers.  We are the trusted guardians of our clients’ Internet infrastructure. Contact us, today to tour an Evocative data center or receive additional information on data center services.

About CyberVerse Since 1994, Cyberverse has been a pioneer in providing quality Internet services in the greater Los Angeles community. Cyberverse is Los Angeles’s most trusted provider, located at 600 W 7thStreet – one of the highest-rated carrier hotels with unrivaled reliability.  The company specializes in colocation, managed services and network with emphasis on top-tier product quality and personalized service for its clients.

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Evocative President & COO Derek Garnier to Speak at Seventh Annual Northern California Data Center Summit

Garnier and other panel members will discuss how blockchain and digital currencies are affecting the modern data center.
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WHO: Evocative President and COO Derek Garnier will speak at the Seventh Annual Northern California Data Center Summit. Derek Garnier is the President & COO of Evocative and brings with him 29 years of provider experience in the data center, network, and compute. Prior to joining Evocative, he served as CEO of Layer42 Networks, which was acquired by Wave Broadband in 2015, with Garnier assuming the position of SVP Data Center Services for Wave. He has held both management and engineering roles at many top internet infrastructure providers including QTS Datacenters, United Layer, AboveNet Communications, SiteSmith, Global Crossing, Global Center, MFS Datanet, and Cabletron Systems. Garnier frequently moderates industry panels, speaks at both industry events and on radio and provides consult for investors and companies during M&A processes.
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WHAT: Blockchain & Data Centers: The Effect of Cryptocurrency on the Industry. Garnier and other panel members will examine how blockchain technology and digital currencies are transforming data center architecture, design and development, and cloud platforms. The panel will discuss whether the requirements of cryptocurrency producers will fundamentally change the role of the traditional data center and whether the technology behind cryptocurrency will shift the demand requirements for other business verticals.
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WHERE: St. Francis Yacht Club – 99 Yacht Rd., San Francisco, CA
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WHEN: February 20, 2018 from 8:00am – 4:00pm Register for CAPRE’s Seventh Annual Northern California Data Center Summit For more information on Evocative’s suite of data center services or to take a tour of one of the company’s data centers, please visit http://www.evocative.com.
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About Evocative Evocative is a North American company and an owner and operator of secure, compliant, highly available data centers. We are the trusted guardians of our clients’ Internet infrastructure. For additional information, please visit http://www.evocative.com. MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa Masiello 603-521-0015 [email protected]

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Evocative’s Arman Khalili Talks Northern California Data Center Market

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Arman Khalili is the CEO of Evocative and brings with him over 25 years of experience in Internet Infrastructure industry. Prior to joining the company, He served as a Principal at Industry Capital a real asset based private equity firm in San Francisco. Arman was the founder and CEO of CentralColo. Prior to that he was the CEO of Black Lotus, a leader in DDoS mitigation company which was acquired by Level 3. The Founder/CEO of UnitedLayer, the largest privately held colocation provider in San Francisco. He was the founder of Sirius – one of the first ISPs in Silicon Valley. Co-founder and CTO of MusicBank, the first music subscription company. In anticipation of CapRE’s Northern California Data Center Summit February 20, we chatted with Arman about the Northern California data center arena. Click here to read the full interview

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