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Contact UsTakahiro Masuda joined the team in March of 2006 as a NOC Technician and currently holds the position of Vice President of Engineering. His team is responsible for designing, implementing, operating, and optimizing systems and networks in order to provide increased availability, speed, performance, and agility for all company web hosting product lines.
Takahiro has earned a B.S. in Mathematics, specialized in Applied and Computational Mathematics, and a minor in Information and Computer Science.
Arman Khalili is the CEO of Evocative and brings with him over 25 years of experience in Internet Infrastructure industry.
Prior to joining the company, Arman served as a Principal at Industry Capital a real assets based private equity firm in San Francisco. He was the founder and CEO of CentralColo also known as Element Critical. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Black Lotus, a leader in DDoS mitigation company, which was acquired by Level 3, and was the Founder/CEO of UnitedLayer, the largest privately held colocation provider in San Francisco. He was the founder of Sirius – one of the first ISPs in Silicon Valley, as well as the Co-founder and CTO of MusicBank, the first music subscription company. He has held numerous senior consulting positions at Level3, AT&T and Apple Computers.
Tim Mektrakarn serves as the company’s Vice President of Cloud and Managed Services. He is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, operational management and technical product innovation. Tim also served as Chief Solution Architect for the Cisco Unified Communications business division in his previous experience. He holds numerous Cisco certifications in the area of IP Telephony implementation, design, support and sales. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona.
Tim is also an avid cyclist and trains throughout the year in hopes of riding in a stage of the Tour de France.
A pioneer in data center infrastructure development, Evocative is proud to have Jay Smith as the company’s Vice President of Data Center Operations. Jay has over 20 years of experience in telecommunication and data center management including deep knowledge of voice and data communication, fiber optic connectivity, data center design, colocation, managed services and related technologies.
Prior to joining Evocative, Jay was the co-founder of Cyberverse. Established in 1994, Jay’s leadership over the past 25 years enabled Cyberverse to earn the reputation as one of the most trusted Internet infrastructure services companies in the industry.
Today, Jay is responsible for all Evocative data centers operations across the United States and consults with clients on determining the most appropriate combination of physical data center locations and customized infrastructure solutions to meet their specific needs.
Edward Buck is the Vice President of Technology and Service delivery at Evocative. Ed’s executive responsibility includes the design, delivery, maintenance, operations and support of all Evocative services. Prior to joining Evocative, Ed was a VP at UnitedLayer, a San Francisco based Colocation and Hosting Company.
Ed also founded ASPextra in 2003, a company focused on providing scalable and highly available managed hosting solutions. At ASPextra, Ed built a network and service delivery internet infrastructure compromising of multiple, geographically dispersed data centers serving clients in the US, Europe and Asia.
Ed is a regular contributor to a number of open source projects. He received his B.A. from Pomona College.
Savi Singh has over 10 years of experience in accounting, with five years of experience in the data center and telecommunications industry. He has successfully led financial and accounting operations through numerous acquisitions.
Savi started his career as a Tax Specialist and then broadened his professional expertise by moving into a corporate and startup sector. Prior to joining Evocative, Savi served as a Revenue Manager of 365 Data Centers.
In his free time, he enjoys photography and hiking with his dog.
John Minnix serves as Vice President of Sales for the company. John brings over 10 years of technology sales experience to all Evocative group brands and companies, including Account Executive positions at Nortel Networks, Foundry Networks and Brocade Communications. He is fluent in technologies including Ethernet switches, routers, voice solutions, security solutions, cloud computing and professional services.
John holds a B.A. in History from Emory University and a Masters in Business Administration with a Marketing focus from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is also a Brocade Certified Network Engineer.
As Chief Digital Officer, Ted Mektrakarn brings over 15 years of experiences in technology development and management. Ted is responsible for the company’s vision, strategic direction, and operational management. Ted carries significant multi-industry knowledge and experience, advancing high-growth technology startups and industry-leading Fortune 500 companies alike. He is known for his ability to take promising technologies and organizations to the next level.
Ted’s experience in the industry includes past positions with companies like Brocade Communications thru the acquisition of Foundry Networks, Vivendi Universals – MP3.com and AT&T CERFnet. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the largest Internet exchange system, Coresite’s Any2 Network Exchange.
Zerto is committed to helping organizations deliver on their brand promise to enable customers and end-users to always have access to the applications, data and services they need to do business. With Zerto Virtual Replication, part of the Zerto Cloud Continuity PlatformTM, enterprises can enhance their disaster recovery ‘insurance policy’ and embrace Resilience for Evolving ITTM. Zerto delivers seamless application mobility and portability, enabling organizations to leverage resources across public, private and hybrid clouds — adding to their confidence to withstand any disruption, incorporate new technology, and easily meet changing business priorities.
VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven solutions that accelerate IT by reducing complexity and enabling more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware enables enterprises to adopt a cloud model that addresses their unique business challenges. VMware’s approach accelerates the transition to cloud computing while preserving existing investments and improving security and control. With more than 300,000 customers, VMware solutions help organizations of all sizes lower costs, increase business agility and ensure freedom of choice.
Veeam is the leading virtualization backup technology for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. Veeam Availability Suite combines powerful backup and replication tools with monitoring to give system administrators the tools they need in a simple to use interface. VPLS also provides offsite data backup and replication services powered by Veeam software.
Western Digital is pioneering a new generation of persistent-memory storage solutions that deliver exceptional performance and economics for a wide range of enterprise applications. With Tegile’s line of unified all-flash and hybrid storage arrays, enterprise customers are running their mission-critical applications at the speed of memory while significantly consolidating their transaction processing, analytics, databases, virtualization, and file services onto a single platform.
Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation, is a premier provider of end-to-end green computing solutions for Enterprise IT, Datacenter, Cloud Computing, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro’s advanced server Building Block Solutions® offers a vast array of modular, interoperable components for building energy-efficient, application-optimized, computing solutions. This broad line of products includes servers, blades, GPU systems, workstations, motherboards, chassis, power supplies, storage technologies, networking solutions and SuperRack® cabinets/accessories.
StorageCraft Technology Corporation is a premier backup and disaster recovery software company. StorageCraft focuses on providing best-in-class backup, disaster recovery, system migration and data protection solutions for virtual and physical environments. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data and lower the total cost of ownership for servers, desktops and laptops.
Ruckus provides secure and reliable access to Wi-Fi, and innovates across wireless and wired technology to meet industry-specific needs. We deliver #SimplyBetterConnections, so you can deliver awesome customer experiences.
Rubrik delivers instant application availability for recovery, search, cloud, and development. Hybrid Cloud enterprises benefit from Rubrik’s market-leading Cloud Data Management platform with simplicity, instant data access, app-mobility, policy-driven automation, Ransomware protection, and analytics at scale.
Palo Alto Networks is the network security company. Its next-generation firewalls enable unprecedented visibility and granular policy control of applications and content – by user, not just IP address – at up to 20Gbps with no performance degradation. Palo Alto Networks firewalls accurately identify and control applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption – and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage. Enterprises can, for the first time, embrace Web 2.0 and maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly reducing total cost of ownership through device consolidation.
Open-E provides robust, stable, and cost effective Software Defined Storage. Open-E DSS offers features such as Active-Active Failover, ISCSI and NAS functionality, volume replication and snapshots. Open-E JovianDSS provides native compression and de-duplication with hybrid storage pools that leverage SSD’s and RAM.
VPLS Solutions is proud to partner with the fastest growing storage company in history, Nimble Storage. Nimble Storage’s flash optimized hybrid storage arrays are engineered for maximum efficiency, performance and value. Nimble Storage integrates the exceptional performance of flash with the favorable economics of high capacity hard disk drives to make the perfect storage solution for your critical data and applications. Click to view Naspo offering
For the large datacenter IT infrastructure, in enterprise, communication or service provider environment, OP5 Monitor is the monitoring solution of choice to take control over your IT because it enables automation of hybrid IT by being scalable, open and secure. 150,000 sysadmins – at organizations from small businesses through the Fortune 100 – have used OP5 Monitor to make their networks faster, more responsive, and more reliable. OP5 fits into any budget and can grow with your needs. It will be the last monitoring software you’ll ever buy. OP5 provides everything from a free license to tailored enterprise solutions.
Mist Systems, born in the mobile and cloud era, delivers the world’s first intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning. Using Mist, enterprises can provide amazing user experiences not possible before, and IT can proactively manage the network at any scale.
Fortinet is a global leader and innovator in Network Security. Fortinet’s mission is to deliver the most innovative, highest performing network security platform to secure and simplify your IT infrastructure. Fortinet is a provider of network security appliances and security subscription services for carriers, data centers, enterprises, distributed offices and MSSPs. Fortinet has a large, rapidly growing and highly satisfied customer base, including the majority of the Fortune Global 100, and they continue to set the pace in the Network Security market.
Digital transformation is top of mind in today’s networking. IT practitioners seek a network provider to challenge the status quo and to collaborate on right-sized solutions on their terms. Extreme Networks builds open, software-driven solutions from the enterprise edge to the cloud that are agile, adaptive, and secure to enable digital transformation. Our 100% in-sourced services and support are #1 in the industry and even with 30,000 customers globally, including half of the Fortune 50, we remain nimble and responsive to ensure customer and partner success. We call this Customer-Driven Networking™.
ExaGrid is hyper-converged secondary storage (HCSS) for backup. ExaGrid’s unique landing zone and scale-out architecture provide the fastest backup — resulting in the shortest fixed backup window, the fastest local restores, fastest offsite tape copies and instant VM recoveries while permanently fixing the backup window length, all with reduced cost up front and over time.
Datrium is the leader in Open Converged Infrastructure for private clouds. Datrium converges compute, primary and secondary storage, and archive to cloud for vastly simpler administration, performance and protection of private cloud infrastructure. The company is led by the founders and early top architects of Data Domain and VMware.
AlienVault® Unified Security Management™ (USM™) Unified Security Management™ (USM™) is AlienVault’s comprehensive approach to security monitoring, delivered in a unified platform. Unified Security Management includes multiple and essential security capabilities that provide resource-constrained organizations with all the security essentials needed for effective threat detection, incident response, and compliance, in a single pane of glass. Designed to monitor cloud and on-premises environments, AlienVault Unified Security Management significantly reduces complexity and deployment time so that you can go from installation to first insight in minutes.
Aruba Networks unifies all things mobility – access management, the network infrastructure and mobility applications – into one cohesive solution that strengthens security and simplifies bring-your-own-device initiatives. Our solutions leverage a programmable infrastructure so they adapt easily to the dynamics of mobility. This enables IT to manage traffic flows on any wired, wireless and remote network and control how devices and work apps are used – without changing or upgrading your existing network. Whether away or at work, Aruba mobility solutions give users consistent, secure access to the appropriate corporate resources based on who they are, where they are and what device they’re using. The resulting solution is a rightsized network infrastructure that saves IT time, reduces capital and operating expenses, speeds-up service delivery, and provides every user with the highest-quality mobility experience.
Barracuda Networks, Inc. offers industry-leading solutions designed to solve mainstream IT problems – efficiently and cost effectively – while maintaining a level of customer support and satisfaction second to none. Our products span three distinct markets, including: 1) content security, 2) networking and application delivery, as well as 3) data storage, protection and disaster recovery.
Cisco enables people to make powerful connections–whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible–providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time.
Aerohive is an innovative enterprise mobility company. Aerohive’s solutions enable enterprises to leverage the power of mobility to increase productivity, engage customers and grow their business. Aerohive’s proprietary mobility platform utilizes the cloud and a distributed, controller-less architecture to deliver unified, intelligent, simplified networks that can be cost-effectively deployed. The scalability and flexibility of Aerohive’s platform makes enterprise mobility available to organizations regardless of their level of IT resources and enables a consistent network architecture to be deployed across enterprises of all sizes.