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Linode Investing $45M In Its Cloud Infrastructure Business

By TechTaffy Desk

Cloud hosting company Linode is investing  $45 million in its cloud infrastructure and services offering. Linode says it has transitioned to native solid state drives (SSDs), offering up to 100X performance improvement over previous HDDs. The company has also doubled RAM across all plans, and increased network throughput to each host server from 2Gbps to 40Gbps.

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