Evocative Acquires Assets of EmeryTech Data Center, LLC

Evocative, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area-based provider of eBusiness solutions today announced that it has acquired the assets of EmeryTech Data Center LLC.

Under the agreement, EmeryTech Data Center's principal asset, its 15,000 square foot commercial data center located at 1400 65th Street in Emeryville, California, and the contracts of its customers, are now owned by Evocative, Inc, effective as of November 1, 2004.

Sean Holzknecht, General Manager of EmeryTech Data Center, has joined Evocative as Vice President of Operations. The terms of the acquisition are otherwise undisclosed.

"The acquisition of Emery Tech Data Center is a key step in Evocative's future plans to expand its service offerings for small and mid-sized enterprises," said Patrick Rigney, Evocative's CEO and CTO.

"Joining forces with Evocative to capitalize on our combined strengths is extremely exciting." said Sean Holzknecht, EmeryTech Data Center's former General Manager and now Evocative's VP of Operations.

The system is specifically designed to serve online merchants who have prior experience with e-commerce, have outgrown their current system, and are looking for a product and service level that will carry them through years of continued growth and profitability.

Beginning in January 2005, Evocative will begin offering managed servers and managed backup in the EmeryTech facility. With a managed server, a small or mid-sized business will be able to "rent" a dedicated server with high-bandwidth Internet access, at a first year cost of about one third that of purchasing a comparable server and co-locating it in other commercial data centers.