Evocative provides enterprise-class data center, network, and bare metal solutions that enable exceptional digital experiences
Published: 2025-08-14 | Author: VisionariesNetwork Team
With the digitalization of the world, enterprises are staring at a new reality that colocation, by itself, cannot be the driver for their digital innovation or deliver excellent end-user experiences. Access to interconnection in strategic metros at edge locations—with the scale needed—unlocks future growth in a fast-moving business environment. Evocative knows that decisions about where, when, and how you connect to your partners and customers may change with your business, so it provides a full set of colocation, network, cloud, and managed services to support those needs.
A Platform for Growth
With 24 data centers and 32 PoPs across 14 very well-placed metros, all interconnected by Evocative’s global network backbone, its edge locations and direct on-ramps help you deliver exceptional digital experiences. This is an infrastructure platform designed to give you all the critical building blocks necessary to build, connect, grow, and ultimately drive your business forward. From colocation to managed services, Evocative has expert resources at your fingertips to meet all of your network connectivity requirements.
Service-Obsessed
At Evocative, Obsession over Customer Outcomes drives positive results and delivers above-and-beyond service throughout its entire portfolio of services. Its teams focused on service are at your beck and call to help you maintain and optimize your infrastructure deployment from onboarding all the way through day-to-day operations. Evocative is personally invested in your success and has teams on hand to ensure that you have everything you need to grow your business.
Experience and Accolades
It's not just a desire to deliver great service; Evocative has the experience to deliver it. They have been consistently listed as one of the top Service Providers in publications such as CRN, Channel Futures, and more. They have earned a reputation for delivering remarkable customer experiences, and have the customer success stories that prove it.
Corporate Values
At Evocative, the team’s commitment to excellence finds expression in their corporate values, which inspire every aspect of their business and define the manner in which they service their customers. Evocative’s values include the following:
• Integrity: Evocative’s existential imperative is characterized by honesty, transparency, and ethical behavior in cementing and sustaining good relations with clients and partners.
• Ownership: The company empowers its staff to own the work and embrace challenges with a positive attitude, going the extra mile to deliver exceptional results.
• Expertise: Knowledge and skill are brought together with experience to provide innovative solutions to complex challenges for Evocative’s clients.
• Agility: Evocative becomes agile and adjust quickly to the situation at hand, staying always one step ahead of the competition with highly effective solutions.
• Service: Service is at the very core of Evocative’s corporate values. They are committed to giving more than what is expected—unto each other, to its clients, and the community.
Premier Colocation Services
Evocative's colocation services provide a full range of cabinet, cage, and suite options with customizable power, connectivity, and security packages. Its colocation solutions give you the highest level of protection for your critical data, flexible IT deployment and management options, carrier-neutral network access, and 42 edge data centers. Expert Managed Services
With over 25 years of direct industry experience, be assured that your environment will be professionally and expertly managed by leading experts 24X7X365. Evocative’s managed services team is dedicated to making sure your infrastructure deployment runs smoothly and with great efficiency.
Deploy High-Performance Dedicated Bare Metal Servers
In a world of digitized capabilities, the need for robust and reliable infrastructure is incomparably beyond. Evocative Metal delivers dedicated, high-performance compute power to fuel your data-intensive workloads. Its servers can be deployed with the operating system of your choice, and Evocative’s highly customizable infrastructure allows you full control over your hardware, not having noisy neighbors competing for your resources—all of this at cost-effective pricing.
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 role of network and data center provider ISI, later renamed Global Crossing via multiple acquisitions, as well as at network companies MFS Datanet and Cabletron Systems.
“Evocative’s global footprint includes interconnected data centers and Points of Presence across strategically located metros in North America, Europe, and Asia regions.”
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