Deploying new infrastructure or expanding your presence, Evocative is the best choice

The Silicon Review

The world is only becoming more and more digital. And for enterprises needing to drive digital innovation and deliver positive end-user experiences, colocation alone is no longer enough. Having the access to scale across edge locations in strategic metros via interconnection is critical to future growth. And choosing where, when, and how the clients connect to the clients’ partners and customers can (and will) change over time. Through the colocation, network, cloud, and managed services, Evocative provides the infrastructure platform with all the critical building blocks the clients need to build, connect, grow, and ultimately drive the clients’ business forward. With 24 data centers and 32 PoPs across 14 strategically located metros connected by the global network backbone, the edge locations and direct on-ramps enable the clients to deliver exceptional digital experiences.

As the world becomes more and more digital, connecting and exchanging data in a flexible, open environment is now an innovation strategy. Evocative’s global network backbone, carrier-neutral data centers, and full suite of services set the clients up for future growth. With state-of-the-art data center, network, and bare metal services, Evocative meets the clients where the clients are and takes the clients where the clients want to go. The team provides dedicated sales reps, a dedicated customer success manager, and an escalation tree that extends up to the CEO. As the clients’ trusted partner, the team is here for the long-term to support the clients’ ongoing success. When the clients partner with Evocative, the clients get the decades of industry experience and accolades to help drive the clients’ business forward. Evocative is experiencing tremendous growth and the team is always looking for talented individuals to join the global team. If the clients are ready to dive into a world of limitless and ever changing technology, Evocative is the place to be.

Services the company offers its clients

Colocation: Evocative’s colocation services offer a full range of cabinet, cage, and suite options with customizable power, connectivity, and security options to suit the clients’ needs. With 42 edge data centers, flexible IT deployment and management options, and carrier-neutral network access, the colocation solutions can help the clients power the demanding workloads of tomorrow. Evocative provides premium colocation solutions that are simple in design and optimized for savings. With any colocation configuration, the team can provide the clients flexible power configurations to meet the clients’ requirements at any density, in N, N+1, and 2N configurations. Evocative will custom-build a cage environment to fit virtually any requirement the clients have. The clients can supply the team with the clients’ racks, or the team can provide them. The team will also work with the clients to custom build the clients’ floor plan and power design to satisfy the clients’ specific needs. With over 25 years of direct industry experience, the clients can rest assured, knowing that the clients’ environment is professionally and expertly managed by leading experts 24X7X365.

Bare Metal: In a world where digital capabilities drive businesses, having a robust and reliable infrastructure is paramount. Evocative Metal delivers high-performance, dedicated compute power to support the clients’ data-intensive workloads. The servers can be deployed with the operating system of the clients’ choice. And, the highly customizable infrastructure provides the clients with full control over the clients’ hardware without “noisy-neighbors” competing for the clients’ resources—all with cost-effective pricing. Business with high-performance computing workloads such as adtech, fintech, gaming, research labs, AI/ML, and more are ideal for bare metal architectures. The bare metal servers are also ideal for workloads with high outbound bandwidth usage, such as collaboration platforms, as well as use cases where dedicated compute environments are required by policy or for compliance.

Network Services: Evocative lets the clients efficiently move data within the data center, between data centers, and between cloud platforms, so the clients can deliver enhanced end-user experiences while optimizing costs. Fast, secure, fault-tolerant Internet access with a variety of packages to choose from. With Evocative, the clients can interconnect to not only the various carriers in the facilities, but to any of the major interconnection points in the region. Evocative can create dedicated connections between data centers, network notes, and the clients’ business locations. Extend the reach of the clients’ infrastructure by directly connecting to a large ecosystem of major public cloud providers.

Meet the leader behind the success of Evocative

Derek Garnier, Chief Executive Officer

Derek Garnier is a 35-year industry veteran in digital infrastructure, specializing in corporate strategy, and has successfully built, operated, and sold companies. He was most recently co-founder of Arcadian Infracom, a long-haul fiber optic company operating in the Southwest. Prior to Arcadian, Derek served as President and COO of Evocative Datacenters which he again joins as President and COO. Derek also served as the CEO of Layer42 Networks, a national network services and colocation provider, which he successfully exited in 2015 through a sale to Wave Broadband. Post-acquisition, Derek continued as Wave’s SVP of Datacenter services. Before his tenure at Layer42 Networks, Derek held management positions at QTS Datacenters and AboveNet Communications through the acquisition of Sitesmith, a global managed services provider of which he was an early employee. Derek began his career as an engineer, serving in the rolefor network and data center provider ISI, later renamed Global Crossing via multiple acquisitions, as well as at network companies MFS Datanet and Cabletron Systems.