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LINODE SOLUTIONS

Colleges and universities are faced with unique challenges when it comes to infrastructure: balancing legacy data storage, constantly expanding, and reducing infrastructure overhead. IT administrators in higher education find more core infrastructure products and services in the alternative cloud.

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Smart cloud infrastructure
for institutions shaping the future

Whether you need unique infrastructure for a project or you’re part of the team that keeps an institution online, scale with flexible cloud infrastructure without worrying about contracts or reserved instances. Flat global pricing makes it easy to access exactly what you need and when you need it. All backed by a 99.99% SLA, industry-leading customer support, and 11 data centers.

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Multicloud or Hybrid Cloud? Find Where Linode Fits

We prioritize portability and open source tools to make sure that Linode can work with your existing critical infrastructure. Gone are the days of working with only one provider. Design multicloud infrastructure architecture that improves your institution’s performance and reliability, all with transparent costs.

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Transparent Pricing
for Balanced Budgets

Benefit from a flat pricing structure that makes it easy to calculate and forecast cloud infrastructure costs. Choose from 11 global data centers, and pay the same price for resources across global regions. Plus our generous, account-level transfer allotments help avoid billing surprises.

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for Data-Intensive Workloads

Linode’s plans and pricing structure make it simple to add extra storage or switch to memory-optimized compute instances to make sure colleges and universities can maintain infrastructure for all the data that’s naturally a part of education.

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When it comes to performance per dollar, Linode’s CPU and cloud GPU instances exceed the competition. Powered by premium hardware and across a global network.

 

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Customer Story

“Working with computational infrastructure and support became important to us because we had to have rapid access to data and all the things you need to be able to manage a project like this on such a rapid timeline. That’s why it has been really valuable to have Linode helping us with that.”

Dr. Joe Ripberger, Deputy Director for Research at the National Center for Risk and Resilience
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Optimize in-memory processing with memory-optimized instances for when you need more RAM without increasing storage or CPUs.

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Accessible on-demand GPUs to accerate your workloads and help you get more work done. (Some account verification required.)

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    Looking for a partner capable of supporting complex needs without inordinate expenses, Nephila Web decided to work with Linode.
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    Empowering The University of Oklahoma's Risk Institute to do cutting-edge work by providing cloud computing services that fits its budget.

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