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1 category · Named, not ranked

Evocative

7Judge labels

0First choices

5Negative labels

6 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Evocative was named 5 times in Colocation, where TierPoint led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business83 of 97

under the label threshold

Mid-market78 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In colocation · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Evocative for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Colocation providers	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	78 of 78	80%	5	under 10 labels · led by TierPoint at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Evocative yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Evocative across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Evocative (formerly Atlantech/others) is a solid alternative” Grok 4.1 Fast · Colocation · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“There is a notable volume of negative sentiment surrounding Evocative. Users have described their experiences as an "absolute disaster"” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Colocation · negative prompt · hard negative

“Evocative had experiences described as "an absolute disaster" according to community feedback.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Colocation · negative prompt · hard negative

“LowEndTalk threads explicitly advise "steer clear."” Grok 4.1 Fast · Colocation · negative prompt · hard negative

“Evocative (Caution / Do your due diligence)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Colocation · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Evocative, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Evocative was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ColoCrossing4 of 70Not among the top eight

Equinix3 of 71Not among the top eight

Digital Realty3 of 70Not among the top eight

TierPoint2 of 71Not among the top eight

CoreSite2 of 70Not among the top eight

QuadraNet2 of 70Not among the top eight

Cologix1 of 71Not among the top eight

NTT Global Data Centers1 of 71Not among the top eight

Colocation America1 of 70Not among the top eight

Cyxtera Technologies1 of 70Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Evocative. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 7 of the 7 answers that named Evocative and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

quotecolo.com6

lowendtalk.com5

slashdot.org5

guideflow.com4

whtop.com4

encoradvisors.com3

netrality.com3

reddit.com3

arphost.com2

capterra.com2

Thirty-seven of the thirty-seven domain citations in answers naming Evocative came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

lowendtalk.com/discussion/202455/any-good-colocation-data-center5

quotecolo.com/colocation-providers5

guideflow.com/blog/colocation-services4

slashdot.org/software/p/ColoCrossing4

whtop.com/review/evocative.com4

encoradvisors.com/best-colocation-data-center3

netrality.com/blog/when-to-switch-colocation-providers3

quotecolo.com/evocative-provider-review3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

What it publishes

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Addresses on evocative.com

180

subdomains included

Content

119

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 3

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
News or press	52	0	2026-02-24	Colocation
Blog	27	0	2026-06-10
Glossary or explainer	17	undated
Report or ebook	9	0	2026-04-23
Case study	8	0	2026-02-12
Comparison	3	undated
Conference or event	2	undated
Template or tool	1	undated

Most recent

2026-06-10Evopod ai infrastructure blog
2026-06-05Next gen workloads next gen efficiency navigating high density computing responsibly blog
2026-04-23Powering ai of the future support next generation high density workloads with evocative report or ebook
2026-03-19Why liquid cooling matters more than ever for ai workloads blog
2026-02-24Evocative named to crns managed service provider 500 for the 11th consecutive year news or press
2026-02-12Case study powering macwebs next era of ai growth case study

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page evocative.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Evocative

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Evocative; a claim can dispute any of them.

Evocative (formerly Atlantech, Breezehost in some markets) 1

Follow Evocative

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Evocative is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Premier Colocation & Bare Metal Services
evocative.com
For: enterprise workloads
evocative.com
Hosting: CaliforniaArizonaGeorgiaNew JerseyMassachusettsTexasWashingtonLos Angeles
Customers named: SingleStoreExabeamMacWebFirst United Methodist Church of Chula VistaCity of BeaumontDriven Solutions
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications

What Evocative's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: evocative.com, evocative.com/about/case-studies, evocative.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Evocative's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Evocative, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Evocative by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Evocative is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Evocative, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.