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Introducing Amazon Lightsail

March 31, 2017 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Amazon Lightsail allows for those interested in AWS to ease into it. The pricing is similar to Digital Ocean. What is Amazon Lightsail? Here is a quick summary. Lightsail Virtual Private Server (VPS) Experience the power and reliability of AWS. Deploy in seconds and manage from the intuitive Lightsail management console or API.… Read more

Healthcare Providers and Insurers in AWS

March 31, 2017 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Healthcare providers around the world are using AWS to deliver improved care to their patients. AWS reduces the time and effort required to run existing workloads, and also provides access to powerful new analytics capabilities, all while meeting the security and privacy requirements that you expect.… Read more

An Online Education Breakthrough? A Master’s Degree for a Mere $7,000

October 27, 2016 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

The master’s degree business is booming. College graduates looking for a leg up in the job market are flocking to one- and two-year programs that promise entry to lucrative careers. Top colleges are more than willing to provide them — for a price.… Read more

A Wharton professor shares 3 science-backed strategies for raising highly creative kids

September 22, 2016 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

If you want to raise creative kids, you need to teach them to think for themselves. To do this, Adam Grant, a professor of management at Wharton, author of the new book, “Originals,” and father of three, tells Business Insider, you need “to foster an identify that ‘I’m somebody who doesn’t conform,’ that ‘I’m somebody who doesn’t follow the crowd.'”… Read more

Microsoft pledges $1bn in cloud computing resources to benefit nonprofits and universities

September 22, 2016 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

DAVOS-KLOSTERS, Switzerland — Jan. 19, 2016 — Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella announced a new three-part initiative to ensure that Microsoft’s cloud computing resources serve the public good. As part of this initiative the recently formed Microsoft Philanthropies will donate $1 billion of Microsoft Cloud Services, measured at fair market value, to serve nonprofits and university researchers over the next three years.… Read more

The Flipped Classroom: Pro and Con

December 24, 2015 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

In 2012, I attended the ISTE conference in San Diego, CA. While I was only there for about 36 hours, it was easy for me to pick up on one of the hottest topics for the three-day event. The “flipped classroom” was being discussed in social lounges, in conference sessions, on the exhibit floor, on the hashtag and even at dinner.… Read more