Over A Decade of Excellence

Evocative was founded in 1996 with the simple purpose of making websites work better by placing the landscape of complex, disparate Internet technologies within the grasp of almost any business.

Since then, Evocative has served hundreds of clients of all sizes with demanding requirements for real-world, mission-critical applications. Evocative's focus on strong engineering skills supported by sensible discipline and process allows us to help customers create stable, lasting foundations for their businesses.

Why Evocative?

It's easy to explain why you should choose Evocative by offering these three core beliefs:

Do it right from the beginning. In everything we do, we strive to create the highest quality work product, and then follow that up with support and constant improvement. Everything we offer to our customer is something we have to feel good about and be willing to support in the long run. We don't do one-offs just to get a deal signed, because we recognize that the only way to create a great experience for the customer is to keep our work close to our core competencies, and practice those competencies religiously.

Flat organizations breed responsibility and crush barriers. Since our products and services are highly technical in nature, we don't make a distinction between sales, engineering, and support roles. The person who sells you the services is an engineer, and will likely be the person who provisions your services and then later handles your support tickets both administratively and technically. That means the sales staff doesn't sell what engineering can't reliably deliver, engineering doesn't make short-cut decisions that are bad for customers, and support doesn't live on the wrong side of an uncrossable moat around an ivory-tower engineering organization. We also routinely review customer accounts and activities as a group, so even if you're talking to someone you haven't spoken to before, they're probably familiar with your account and services.

Our customers' success is our success. Sure it sounds corny, but the fact is that the more positive we can make your experience with us, the more successful you can become, the longer you will be a customer with us, and the better a customer you will be. We recognize that big businesses grow out of little businesses, and we're enthusiastic supporters of small businesses. But whether you are big or small, there are a lot of the same challenges that we can help you solve.

What are Evocative's Products and Services?

Evocative offers colocation and hosting of client equipment in its company-owned, purpose-built Emeryville Data Center. For those clients who require a lower technology barrier, Evocative's suite of managed services provides managed dedicated servers, managed firewalls, managed backup, and other core infrastructure elements.

Evocative's goal is reduce the technical burden on our clients to the degree that best suits their business. If they prefer to own their own servers, for example, colocation in our Emeryville Data Center may address their needs. If the client doesn't want to have to replace a disk drive at 2am on Christmas day, an Evocative Managed Dedicated Server, monitored and maintained by Evocative, is the simple, worry-free solution.

Who are Evocative's Customers?

Evocative's customers range from small companies with modest needs to very large Fortune 2000 companies, including some of America's fastest growing businesses. Their common need is for a quality solution that they can trust, yet won't break the bank.

Experienced Executives with a Team Approach

Evocative's founders are former executives from major Internet and software companies and are highly skilled and experienced in a wide range of technical, strategic, and creative services. Our associates and partners are held to high standards of technical knowledge and focus on customer service, and are uniquely qualified to deliver proven e-commerce and Internet business solutions. Evocative takes a team approach to serving clients, providing interdisciplinary skills and offering vertical or industry-specific experience to reduce the resource requirements and costs our customers face. Strategy experts, site architects, designers, systems and network engineers and project managers form the core group of all working teams.