Evocative

Derek Garnier, experienced data center and internet infrastructure executive, is appointed to executive management team.

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San Jose, CA, September 6, 2017 – Evocative, LLC, a leading provider of secure Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that Derek Garnier has joined the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Garnier will drive Evocative’s data center operations including management of the company’s full suite of services, as well as design, delivery, support, and maintenance. “We are excited to welcome Derek to Evocative. He shares our customer-first mindset, dedication to being a trusted partner to our clients, and focus on delivering innovative solutions that help organizations meet their current technology requirements and realize their future business goals,” said Arman Khalili, Evocative CEO. “Derek and I have worked closely together for more than a decade and I am certain that his deep expertise in data center and Internet infrastructure technology will be a key component in Evocative’s future growth.” “Evocative has a long history and unparalleled reputation for providing custom Internet infrastructure solutions that allow enterprises in Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Bay Area and now Los Angeles, to run their businesses on their terms,” said Derek Garnier, Evocative’s newly appointed President. “I am privileged to be joining such an outstanding team of professionals, and to be able to build upon Evocative’s solid foundation, helping to drive continued success.” Prior to joining Evoca tive, Mr. Garnier was the CEO of Layer42, a Silicon Valley-based data center and national network provider, which was acquired by Wave Broadband. There he led the organization for many years, including the sale of the company. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Evocative operates secure, high availability data centers in the heart of Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. The company’s fully customizable data center services include colocation, hybrid IT, managed private cloud, dedicated hosting, and network and security services.[spacer height=”20px”]

About Evocative

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Evocative is a North American company and an owner and operator of secure, compliant, highly available data centers. We are the trusted guardi ans of our clients’ Internet infrastructure. To tour an Evocative data center or receive additional information on data center services, please contact us.

Evocative is expanding its foot print and bringing its highly secure full compliant data center portfolio to the Los Angeles Market.

San Jose, CA, September 6, 2017 – Evocative, LLC , a leading provider of highly secure compliant Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has acquired two downtown Los Angeles based data centers from ColoNet Solutions and executed a long-term lease with Rising Realty Partners at West 7 Center, formerly known as the Garland Center, located at 1200 West 7th Street.

West 7 Center is one of the best connected, secure and hardened facilities on the west coast. Earlier this year Evocative purchased two data centers from 365 Data Centers in Silicon Valley and this expansion is a strategic fit for its operations. The newly added Los Angeles data centers add an additional 42,000 Square Feet and 2.5 MW of capacity and is expandable to 225,000 Square Feet and 16.9 MW of capacity to its existing Silicon Valley sites, bringing the company to over 100,000 SF and 4.5 MW of capacity. Evocative is the premier trusted guardian of Internet infrastructure to businesses on the west coast.

Fully Compliant Enterprise Grade Data Center Infrastructure

Evocative is well positioned to handle flexible lab and high density computing requirements alongside with mission critical, fully compliant enterprise grade data center infrastructure. All the company’s data centers are carrier neutral, providing the highest level of flexibility and diversity to its enterprise clients.

All facilities are HIPAA, PCI DSS, SSAE 16, SSAE-18, SOC 2 and ISAE 3402 certified, meeting rigorous security and compliance requirements. In addition, they have consistently achieved a 100% uptime availability over the past 10 years. Businesses can benefit from Evocative’s comprehensive suite of fully customizable data center services including colocation; managed services; public, private and hybrid cloud solutions; dedicated hosting; and network and security services.

Purpose-built and fully operational, the Company’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions also offer true and transparent visibility into data center infrastructure and resource allocations, providing the most cost-effective, agile, and scalable outcomes to large enterprises, helping them achieve their specific business goals.

Evocative can provide visibility in terms of large scale power usage down to virtual machine resource allocation on shared or dedicated servers. “We are honored that so many world-class organizations from small startups to Fortune 500 clients are choosing Evocative to store and secure their most valuable business assets. We are committed to their success,” said Arman Khalili, Evocative’s CEO. “This acquisition is in line with our expansion plans and our acquisition earlier this year. We look forward to continuing growing the company both organically and through additional acquisitions. Most importantly we would like to welcome our new clients, employees and partners to the Evocative family.” Darren Eades of JLL negotiated the lease on behalf of Evocative and the landlord, Rising Realty Partners.

About Evocative

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

About Rising Realty Partners

Rising Realty Partners is a full-service investment and operating platform specializing in creating world- class commercial and industrial properties. Rising executives have been creating value for investors in California commercial real estate markets for over four decades by striking the perfect balance between dynamic vision and trusted best practices. Rising currently manages over 3M sf of office space and is credited with the most significant revitalization project in Downtown Los Angeles, the PacMutual Campus (PacMutual).

Evocative Partners with Ubersmith to Offer a Full Business Management Software Suite and Support Company’s Fast Growth.

San Jose, CA, August 8, 2017 – Evocative, LLC, a leading provider of secure Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Ubersmith, Inc. to provide its enterprise data center clients with a robust billing and business management software solution for its data centers and hosting solutions. This will enable Evocative clients to easily scale their IT infrastructure and implement a hybrid cloud environment designed specifically for their needs. Evocative serves a diverse customer base ranging from startups to large publicly traded enterprises. Because of its customers’ diverse needs and technology evolving over time, Evocative has expanded its product offerings from the colocation services of the early days to managed hosting and full private cloud services and hybrid IT solutions.

Hosting and Telecommunications Industries

Many of the company’s staff, including its CEO, Arman Khalili, and CTO, Edward Buck, have backgrounds that span decades working in the hosting and telecommunications industries, and believe that success is driven by providing superior customer service, high integrity, high availability and great value backed by strong technical competence. Khalili and Buck knew from the start that they needed strong systems in place, automating as much as possible to support their business and projected growth while at the same time helping to control cost. In previous companies, they have written custom applications supporting their business.

After the acquisition of Evocative earlier this year, they selected Ubersmith’s business management suite, based on their previous familiarity with the software. Ubersmith provides the perfect foundation and extendibility to build on. With Ubersmith, they can provide their customers immediate access to a portal that enables clients to view and automate billing, order online, manage and monitor services and provides for self-service support. The software suites enable Evocative to develop custom application for future services such as on demand power billing and usage-based billing for compute resources. “Clients want their IT problems solved.

Today it’s cloud and colocation billed on a monthly or hourly basis (kW/hr), 20 years from now it might be billed on an annual or per minute basis (kW/min). We have the foundation to provide these services now and for years to come,” stated Arman Khalili, Evocative CEO.

“We worked with Arman Khalili in his previous companies and are thrilled that he selected us as their vendor of choice for their billing and business management software solution,” stated Kurt Daniel, Ubersmith President. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Evocative operates secure, high availability data centers in the heart of Silicon Valley. The company’s fully customizable data center services include colocation, hybrid IT, managed private cloud, dedicated hosting, and network and security services.

About Ubersmith

Founded in 2002, Ubersmith is a leader in subscription business management software for organizations of all sizes. Hundreds of companies rely on Ubersmith to better serve their customers, better run their businesses, shorten time-to-market and boost overall efficiency.

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. Contact us today to tour an Evocative data center or receive additional information on data center services.

The addition of Zayo’s Dark Fiber and CloudLink to two Evocative data centers enables enterprises to utilize both public cloud applications and private cloud or colocation services to grow their business.

San Jose, CA, July 27, 2017 – Evocative, LLC, a leading provider of secure Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) to provide its enterprise data center clients with a private, high-speed connection to the public cloud as well as providing dark and lit fiber services to its two flagship data centers in Emeryville and San Jose, California. This will enable Evocative clients to easily scale their IT infrastructure and implement a hybrid cloud environment designed specifically for their needs.
“Companies today expect that the data center they select will be flexible, providing industry-leading technology services that enable them to build a custom solution and grow their business on their terms,” said Ed Buck, Evocative Vice President of Technology and Service Delivery. “The addition of Zayo’s CloudLink to our Emeryville and San Jose, CA data center infrastructures demonstrates that we are listening closely to the needs of our clients and are committed to helping them realize their business goals.” CloudLink provides direct network connectivity to over 50 cloud providers and over 150 cloud on-ramps globally. Whether a business only requires one cloud connection or many, CloudLink delivers flexibl e, reliable and secure high-performance bandwidth options, privately connecting them to the world’s leading cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Enterprise clients can now easily integrate their public cloud application requirements with Evocative’s private cloud or colocation services. This enables them to achieve a more secure, stable and reliable way to store, manage and use their data, while at the same time, maintaining the flexibility and scalability they need to grow. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Evocative operates secure, high availability data centers in the heart of Silicon Valley. The company’s fully customizable data center services include colocation, hybrid IT, managed private cloud, dedicated hosting, and network and security services.

About Zayo Group

Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) provides communications infrastructure services, including fiber and bandwidth connectivity, colocation and cloud infrastructure to the world’s leading businesses. Customers include wireless and wireline carriers, media and content companies and finance, healthcare and other large enterprises. Zayo’s 122,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. In addition to high-capacity dark fiber, wavelength, Ethernet and other connectivity solutions, Zayo offers colocation and cloud infrastructure in its carrier-neutral data centers. Zayo provides clients with flexible, customized solutions and self-service through Tranzact, an innovative online platform for managing and purchasing bandwidth and services.

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. To tour an Evocative data center or receive additional information on data center services contact us today.

Ed Buck, experienced data center leader, is appointed to executive management team.San Jose, CA, June 1, 2017 -“ Evocative, LLC, a leading provider of secure Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that Ed Buck has joined the company as Vice President of Technology and Service Delivery. Mr. Buck’s executive responsibilities include the design, delivery, maintenance, operations and support of Evocative’s full suite of data center services. “We are thrilled to welcome Ed to Evocative. He shares our customer-first focus, commitment to being a trusted partner to our clients, and providing innovative solutions that help companies meet their technology needs and achieve their business goals,” said Arman Khalili, Evocative CEO. “Ed and I have worked closely together over the past twelve years and I know that his wealth of experience in data center and Internet infrastructure technology will be a key component in Evocative’s future growth.” “Evocative has a long history and outstanding reputation for delivering custom Internet infrastructure solutions that enable enterprises in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area to run their businesses on their terms,” said Ed Buck, Evocative VP of Technology and Service Delivery. “I am happy to join the exceptional team of professionals at Evocative and to be able to build on that history.” Prior to joining Evocative, Mr. Buck was Vice President of Services at San Francisco-based data center provider UnitedLayer, where he led the Operations and Engineering teams for many years. He was also the founder of ASPextra, a company focused on providing scalable and highly available managed h osting solutions where he built a network and service delivery Internet infrastructure comprised of multiple, geographically dispersed data centers serving clients in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Buck also held management positions at Oracle where he was deeply involved in the evaluation, acquisition and implementation of Internet and commerce technologies that shaped much of the Internet ecosystem in its early years. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Evocative operates secure, high availability data centers in the heart of Silicon Valley. The company’s fully customizable data center services include colocation, hybrid IT, managed private cloud, dedicated hosting, and network and security services.

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. To tour an Evocative data center or receive additional information on data center services,

New highly secure facilities, a full suite of data center services and new executive leadership position Evocative for continued growth and expansion.

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San Jose, CA, May 10, 2017 – Evocative, LLC, a leading provider of secure Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has acquired two Silicon Valley area data centers from 365 Data Centers. The acquisition preceded the recently announced acquisition of 365 Data Centers by a new investor and management group. Located in Emeryville and San Jose, CA, the data centers enable Evocative to immediately address the individual technology requirements and security needs of local businesses from fast-growing startups to established enterprises. In addition, the Company has also welcomed veteran Internet executive and entrepreneur Arman Khalili to the position of Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors.[spacer height=”20px”]
Evocative owns and operates secure, compliant and highly available data centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. With these acquisitions in Emeryville and San Jose, the Company is now the trusted guardian of Internet infrastructure to businesses in the heart of Silicon Valley. The two facilities add a combined 40,000 square feet of colocation space with the ability to expand to 105,000 square feet and are positioned to handle flexible lab and high density computing requirements. They are carrier neutral, providing the highest level of flexibility and diversity to clients. Both facilities are HIPAA, PCI DSS, SSAE 16, SOC 2 and ISAE 3402 certified, meeting rigorous security and compliance requirements. In addition, they have consistently achieved a 100% uptime availability over the past 15 years. Businesses can benefit from Evocative’s comprehensive suite of fully customizable data center services including colocation; managed services; public, private and hybrid cloud solutions; dedicated hosting; and network and security services. Purpose-built and fully operational, the Company’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions also offer visibility into data center infrastructure and resource allocations, providing the most cost-effective, agile, and scalable outcomes to large enterprises, helping them achieve their specific business goals. “We are proud to be a member of the Silicon Valley community and are honored that so many world- class organizations from small startups to some of the Fortune 500 are choosing Evocative to store and secure their most valuable business assets. We are committed to their success,” said Arman Khalili, Evocative’s CEO. “As the Company’s new CEO, I look forward to working with the Evocative team and our investors to grow the company both organically and through additional acquisitions.” Arman Khalili is an experienced Internet infrastructure executive and entrepreneur. Most recently, he was the founder and CEO of data center provider CentralColo. Prior to that he was the CEO of Black Lotus, a leader in DDoS mitigation which was acquired by Level 3 Communications. Khalili was also the Founder and CEO of UnitedLayer, the largest privately held colocation provider in San Francisco and a co-founder of Sirius, one of the first ISPs in Silicon Valley. In addition, he has held numerous senior consulting positions at Level 3 Communications, AT&T, Apple and NeXT Computers. Under Khalili’s leadership, Evocative will continue its ex pansion. The acquisitions in Emeryville and San Jose form the foundation of the Company’s strategic growth plans. These include the opening of additional data centers on the West Coast within the next year as well as the development and delivery of additional colocation and managed services to businesses around the globe.[spacer height=”20px”]

About Evocative

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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. Contact us to tour an Evocative data center or receive additional information on data center services.

Evocative Announces New VP of Technology and Service Delivery

Ed Buck, experienced data center leader, is appointed to executive management team.

San Jose, CA, June 1, 2017 -“ Evocative, LLC, a leading provider of secure Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that Ed Buck has joined the company as Vice President of Technology and Service Delivery. Mr. Buck’s executive responsibilities include the design, delivery, maintenance, operations and support of Evocative’s full suite of data center services.
“We are thrilled to welcome Ed to Evocative. He shares our customer-first focus, commitment to being a trusted partner to our clients, and providing innovative solutions that help companies meet their technology needs and achieve their business goals,” said Arman Khalili, Evocative CEO. “Ed and I have worked closely together over the past twelve years and I know that his wealth of experience in data center and Internet infrastructure technology will be a key component in Evocative’s future growth.” “Evocative has a long history and outstanding reputation for delivering custom Internet infrastructure solutions that enable enterprises in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area to run their businesses on their terms,” said Ed Buck, Evocative VP of Technology and Service Delivery. “I am happy to join the exceptional team of professionals at Evocative and to be able to build on that history.” Prior to joining Evocative, Mr. Buck was Vice President of Services at San Francisco-based data center provider UnitedLayer, where he led the Operations and Engineering teams for many years. He was also the founder of ASPextra, a company focused on providing scalable and highly available managed h osting solutions where he built a network and service delivery Internet infrastructure comprised of multiple, geographically dispersed data centers serving clients in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Buck also held management positions at Oracle where he was deeply involved in the evaluation, acquisition and implementation of Internet and commerce technologies that shaped much of the Internet ecosystem in its early years. Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Evocative operates secure, high availability data centers in the heart of Silicon Valley. The company’s fully customizable data center services include colocation, hybrid IT, managed private cloud, dedicated hosting, and network and security services.

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. To tour an Evocative data center or receive additional information on data center services, please visit http://www.evocative.com.

New highly secure facilities, a full suite of data center services and new executive leadership position Evocative for continued growth and expansion.

San Jose, CA, May 10, 2017 – Evocative, LLC, a leading provider of secure Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has acquired two Silicon Valley area data centers from 365 Data Centers. The acquisition preceded the recently announced acquisition of 365 Data Centers by a new investor and management group. Located in Emeryville and San Jose, CA, the data centers enable Evocative to immediately address the individual technology requirements and security needs of local businesses from fast-growing startups to established enterprises. In addition, the Company has also welcomed veteran Internet executive and entrepreneur Arman Khalili to the position of Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors.

Evocative owns and operates secure, compliant and highly available data centers in the San Francisco Bay Area. With these acquisitions in Emeryville and San Jose, the Company is now the trusted guardian of Internet infrastructure to businesses in the heart of Silicon Valley. The two facilities add a combined
40,000 square feet of colocation space with the ability to expand to 105,000 square feet and are positioned to handle flexible lab and high density computing requirements. They are carrier neutral, providing the highest level of flexibility and diversity to clients. Both facilities are HIPAA, PCI DSS, SSAE
16, SOC 2 and ISAE 3402 certified, meeting rigorous security and compliance requirements. In addition,
they have consistently achieved a 100% uptime availability over the past 15 years.
Businesses can benefit from Evocative’s comprehensive suite of fully customizable data center services
including colocation; managed services; public, private and hybrid cloud solutions; dedicated hosting;
and network and security services. Purpose-built and fully operational, the Company’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solutions also offer visibility into data center infrastructure and resource allocations, providing the most cost-effective, agile, and scalable outcomes to large enterprises, helping them achieve their specific business goals.
“We are proud to be a member of the Silicon Valley community and are honored that so many world- class organizations from small startups to some of the Fortune 500 are choosing Evocative to store and secure their most valuable business assets. We are committed to their success,” said Arman Khalili, Evocative’s CEO. “As the Company’s new CEO, I look forward to working with the Evocative team and our investors to grow the company both organically and through additional acquisitions.”
Arman Khalili is an experienced Internet infrastructure executive and entrepreneur. Most recently, he was the founder and CEO of data center provider CentralColo. Prior to that he was the CEO of Black Lotus, a leader in DDoS mitigation which was acquired by Level 3 Communications. Khalili was also the Founder and CEO of UnitedLayer, the largest privately held colocation provider in San Francisco and a co-founder of Sirius, one of the first ISPs in Silicon Valley. In addition, he has held numerous senior consulting positions at Level 3 Communications, AT&T, Apple and NeXT Computers.
Under Khalili’s leadership, Evocative will continue its ex pansion. The acquisitions in Emeryville and San Jose form the foundation of the Company’s strategic growth plans. These include the opening of additional data centers on the West Coast within the next year as well as the development and delivery of additional colocation and managed services to businesses around the globe.

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. To tour an Evocative data center or receive additional information on data center services contact us today.