CIO Bulletin

Evocative – Empowering the Digital Future with Innovative Data Center Solutions

Data centers are fundamental to our digital economy, serving as the backbone for everything we do online—from streaming shows to processing transactions. With the exponential growth of data creation, data centers are becoming increasingly vital. By 2025, global data creation is expected to reach up to 181 zettabytes (approximately a trillion gigabytes). Traditional data centers simply cannot manage such immense data processing and storage demands. To address the rising requirements for data processing and storage, many companies are opting to build their own enterprise data centers.

Evocative stands out as a global leader in enterprise-class data center solutions, offering bare metal, network, cloud, and managed services that deliver outstanding digital experiences. With a global presence encompassing 20 data centers and over 60 Points of Presence (POPs), Evocative supports more than 68,000 servers across strategically positioned metropolitan areas in North America, Europe, and Asia. Through a series of strategic acquisitions, Evocative continues to expand its reach, enabling the management of enterprise workloads at the edge. Committed to driving digital businesses forward, Evocative is dedicated to supporting its clients both now and into the future.

Offering Robust Data Colocation Services

Colocation Services: From optimized facilities to colocation and managed services, Evocative provides a full suite of data center solutions. With Evocative, you get over 25 years of industry expertise, their best-in-class partnerships, and results-driven approach. Evocative’s colocation services offer a full range of cabinet, cage, and suite options with customizable power, connectivity, and security options to suit your needs. With 42 edge data centers, flexible IT deployment and management options, and carrier-neutral network access, their colocation solutions can help you power the demanding workloads of tomorrow. Evocative provides premium colocation solutions that are simple in design and optimized for savings. With any colocation configuration, they can provide you flexible power configurations to meet your requirements at any density, in N, N+1, and 2N configurations. Evocative will custom-build a cage environment to fit virtually any requirement you have. You can supply us with your racks, or they can provide them. They will also work with you to custom build your floor plan and power design to satisfy your specific needs.

Network Solutions: Evocative’s global network backbone, carrier-neutral data centers, and cloud on-ramps are designed to provide operational flexibility and set your business up for growth. Evocative has a resilient, multi-vendor network infrastructure connecting to several Tier 1 Internet backbones via multi-homed BGP. With this globally-connected infrastructure in place, they are able to provide customers with a “blended” Internet connection – a connection that is not reliant on a single provider to reach the Internet. This type of connection guarantees that a single provider’s outage will not cause downtime for your business. Many options are available to ensure that your circuit will be delivered in a customized way to suit your business needs. For example, IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses can be leased through Evocative, or feel free to bring your own registered block of IP addresses. Furthermore, routing can be simply static routing, or dynamic routing can be configured with BGP. With BGP, bringing your own public ASN is welcomed, but not required.

Cloud Services: Their top rated cloud solutions enable you to modernize your application portfolio and provide resources on demand to give you a competitive edge. At Evocative, they have custom solutions that can fit business and individual IT needs at scale, at an amazing value. Their cloud hosting services and solutions are designed to help with any sized migration project. Superior cloud hosting services are crucial to keeping your data safe and secure, and migrating them requires efficiency with little room for error. Migrating an organization’s IT infrastructure can seem difficult but it’s not as tough as you may think with the right planning. That means doing research on what exactly needs transferring as well as recruiting knowledgeable professionals to take care of it. These steps will help make sure everything is done properly from start to finish in order to avoid future headaches. After all, nobody wants to deal with data loss and its repercussions. Evocative provides cloud hosting services that are reliable, efficient, and adaptable on the fly when needed. For far too long, unreliable service models have caused headaches for small and large businesses who are simply searching for smooth and reliable cloud hosting services. With these custom cloud hosting solutions from Evocative, you get accountability and consistency on a minute-by-minute level.

Derek Garnier | CEO

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 role for network and data center provider ISI, later renamed Global Crossing via multiple acquisitions, as well as at network companies MFS Datanet and Cabletron Systems.