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Some of the cabinets inside the data center in Emeryville, Calif., which has been acquired by 365 Main.

Data center operator 365 Main has expanded its presence in the San Francisco Bay Area with the acquisition of an Evocative, Inc. facility in Emeryville, Calif. It will be the company’s 17th data center, following 365 Main’s purchase of 16 data centers from Equinix.

The acquisition builds on 365 Main’s legacy in San Francisco, where the company is headquartered and opened its first data center, which was later acquired by Digital Realty. 365 Main has a data center in San Jose, but the Emeryville site provides it with a footprint just across the Bay Bridge from the San Francisco business community.

365 Main CEO Chris Dolan says the Emeryville data center houses more than 100 customers, compared to the 200 customers spread across the company’s other 16 data centers. Evocative has built a solid business selling colocation and managed hosting services, with many customers using less than a full rack.

“Emeryville boasts an impressive roster of companies, many of which require flexible, reliable data support,” said Dolan. “Our customers wanted to see our highly available and attentive services in this location, and we responded. We’re proud to deliver 365 Main’s quality and customized service, and broaden our presence in the San Francisco Bay Area market.”

“Our customers have the added benefit of being part of a large, nationwide platform of data centers that is continuing to expand domestically,” added Dolan. “This affords them the opportunity to easily expand to multiple markets, be in close proximity to their data and improve latency.”

Retaining the Evocative Team

365 Main will retain the staff of Evocative, which will add its expertise in network services. The company has been on Inc. Magazine’s “Inc. 5000′ list of fastest growing companies from 2009-2012. Carriers available include AT&T, CenturyLink, Paxio, Verizon and Zayo.

“Operational excellence and personalized service have been hallmarks of Evocative’s business, making us a perfect fit to join 365 Main’s portfolio, and our customers will continue to benefit from their like-minded approach,” said Patrick Rigney, Evocative’s founder. “The entire Bay Area market has just gained, by this acquisition, a top-ranked market operator in the retail colocation space, with the operational and customer service standards and experience sought by established enterprises and aggressive start-ups alike.”

Dolan said the addition of the Evocative team provides 365 Main with the capability to add network services at other data centers in the future.

“Now that we have a national footprint, a lot of our deals have a bandwidth component,” said Dolan. “We’re carrier-neutral and have a robust choice of carriers. But being able to offer a network product as an option could help us with customers interested in one-stop shopping.”
The exterior of 365 Main’s newest data center facility in Emeryville, Calif.

Emeryville, CA, Aug. 25, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Evocative, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area-based colocation and managed services provider, today announced that it has been named to Inc. Magazine’s prestigious 2011 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in America, its fourth consecutive year on the list.[spacer height=”20px”]
“We do much more for our customers than the average colocation facility, and we’re very proud of that. This honor confirms that we’re on the right track,” says Patrick Rigney, Evocative’s CEO. “Growing in this economy has been particularly challenging because our customers come from a broad range of businesses, and many are hard-hit by current economic conditions. They need us more than ever, because we help them make best use of their IT resources and reduce costs. They recognize the exceptional economies of scale we can deliver, and the technical capabilities we provide. Placing on the Inc. 5000 for a fourth consecutive year is a huge honor for us, a great mark of distinction, and a great acknowledgement of our hard work.”[spacer height=”20px”]
In a stagnant economic environment, median growth rate of 2011 Inc. 500|5000 companies remains an impressive 94 percent. The companies on this year’s list report having created 350,000 jobs in the past three years, and aggregate revenue among the honorees reached $366 billion, up 14 percent from last year.[spacer height=”20px”]
The complete 2011 Inc. 5000 list, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at here.[spacer height=”20px”]
For further information regarding Evocative, please visit at www.evocative.com, call toll free 1-888-883-8653 (888-88-EVOKE) or email [email protected].
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About Evocative, Inc.
Since 1996, Evocative (www.evocative.com) has delivered core infrastructure and managed solutions to small and mid-sized businesses. We help our clients succeed and grow by putting best-of-breed technologies within their grasp, giving them headache-free solutions, and using economies of scale to reduce costs. Evocative serves hundreds of clients with demanding requirements for mission-critical solutions.

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 10, 2004–Evocative, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area-based provider of eBusiness solutions today announced that it has acquired the assets of EmeryTech Data Center LLC.

Under the agreement, EmeryTech Data Center’s principal asset, its 15,000 square foot commercial data center located at 1400 65th Street in Emeryville, California, and the contracts of its customers, are now owned by Evocative, Inc, effective as of November 1, 2004. Sean Holzknecht, General Manager of EmeryTech Data Center, has joined Evocative as Vice President of Operations. The terms of the acquisition are otherwise undisclosed.

“The acquisition of Emery Tech Data Center is a key step in Evocative’s future plans to expand its service offerings for small and mid-sized enterprises”

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“The acquisition of Emery Tech Data Center is a key step in Evocative’s future plans to expand its service offerings for small and mid-sized enterprises,” said Patrick Rigney, Evocative’s CEO and CTO. “Synergy is such an overused word in business today, but this truly defines the essence of it: we’ve become much more than the sum of the two businesses, and as we go into 2005, both Evocative’s and EmeryTech’s customers will have access to more services and solutions than ever before.

Our goal is to create a whole new fabric of services under one roof, with outstanding service and reliability, and a more sensible 21st century price tag rather than the 1999 price tag others are still clinging to.”

“Joining forces with Evocative to capitalize on our combined strengths is extremely exciting,” said Sean Holzknecht, EmeryTech Data Center’s former General Manager and now Evocative’s VP of Operations. “We now have an industrial-grade suite of managed services to match our facility and network infrastructure. Our customers will have the flexibility to self manage or outsource their critical systems to whatever degree they choose. This fundamental change affords us the opportunity to appeal to a far greater segment of the market than we did as separate companies.”

Evocative is also announcing the immediate availability of managed servers and managed backup in the EmeryTech facility. With a managed server, a small or mid-sized business will be able to “rent” a dedicated server with high-bandwidth Internet access, at a first year cost of about one third that of purchasing a comparable server and co-locating it in other commercial data centers. Evocative offers three standard configurations, and custom configurations built to specification. The monthly fees include hardware support, a service level agreement, and guaranteed one-hour hardware replacement. Colocation customers also have the opportunity to outsource individual services from the standard managed server offering, such as monitoring, DNS and Load Balancing.

Evocative’s managed backup service is available to current and new customers of the EmeryTech Data Center facility. The service will also be available to customers outside the data center who are within reach of the fiber loop installed by Paxio, Inc. earlier this year, which runs by some of Emeryville’s hottest new commercial and residential properties.

Other facilities-based services are planned for release in early 2005. Evocative will also release a new version of its e-business management application, Evocative Commerce, during the first quarter of 2005.

About Evocative, Inc.

Evocative is an eBusiness Service and Solutions Provider that has provided feature-rich, high performance e-commerce solutions and technology since 1996. Its core service, Evocative Commerce, is an outsourced, managed solution for the small and mid-sized enterprise whose evolving demands require industry-leading features, guaranteed reliability, connectivity and collaboration with existing in-house systems, and a high rate of return from their e-commerce programs.

The system is specifically designed to serve online merchants who have prior experience with e-commerce, have outgrown their current system, and are looking for a product and service level that will carry them through years of continued growth and profitability. Evocative has served hundreds of clients of all sizes with demanding requirements for mission-critical solutions, including Robert Mondavi Corporation, Visioneer, Linear Technology Corporation, Electronic Arts, Iomega, 3Com, Palm Computing, Silicon Graphics, Charles Schwab, Levi Strauss & Co., San Francisco Symphony, ShopBop.com and Ubisoft.