Ron Miller

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Ron Miller is a freelance technology reporter and blogger. He is contributing editor at EContent Magazine and enterprise reporter at TechCrunch.

Documenting processes is more important than ever

Documenting processes is more important than ever

In the work-from-home era it is more important now than ever to have clearly defined workflows and processes. In many cases, it is no longer possible for employees to simply walk over to the next desk and ask a colleague...

/ July 14, 2020
Helping clients adjust to the new reality of working

Helping clients adjust to the new reality of working

The pandemic has pushed many businesses to close offices and move to entirely working from home. This has led to many adjustments in how people work and what they need from IT. While this may have been thought of as...

/ July 2, 2020
SaaS players want to ease creation of digital workflows

SaaS players want to ease creation of digital workflows

With the pandemic forcing businesses to leave the office and work from home, chances are many organizations have turned to cloud services like Box to share files and collaborate. SaaS vendors recognize that customers are moving online much faster due...

/ June 23, 2020
This tool helps identify unused cloud infrastructure resources

This tool helps identify unused cloud infrastructure resources

Harness, a startup that has been concentrating on building a continuous delivery as a service offering, added a new wrinkle this week. It announced a way to track public cloud spending in real time to help control cloud infrastructure costs....

/ June 15, 2020
Salesforce business packs could help MSP clients

Salesforce business packs could help MSP clients

As a managed service provider, your job has probably gotten more complex in recent months as companies have had to change the way they work in response to the pandemic. That might involve moving employees from an office to home....

/ June 8, 2020
Robotic process automation for legacy environments

Robotic process automation for legacy environments

MSPs often deal with customers who are using older technology, sometimes years or decades old. In small and medium businesses if it’s not broken you probably aren’t going to invest resources by modernizing the toolset. But one thing you can...

/ May 26, 2020
Beware as COVID-19 is bringing out spammers and scammers

Beware as COVID-19 is bringing out spammers and scammers

I was going through one of my email accounts the other day and I noticed a bunch of 1990s-style spam emails. There was the promise of sharing some uncollected inheritance with me from some deceased African royalty if I only...

/ May 13, 2020
Flexera cloud report finds adoption is exploding

Flexera cloud report finds adoption is exploding

This week, Flexera released its annual state of the cloud report. One of the key take-aways is that things had been shifting quickly, even before the pandemic forced many companies to adopt the cloud much faster than they might have...

/ May 4, 2020
IT’s priorities are changing quickly in the face of the pandemic

IT’s priorities are changing quickly in the face of the pandemic

Things are a bit crazy out there. Many of your clients have likely shut down their offices — where possible — and moved to work-from-home. Even businesses like restaurants have had to alter the way they do business — and...

/ April 23, 2020
The importance of helping clients control SaaS costs

The importance of helping clients control SaaS costs

The COVID-19 crisis has forced most offices to close in observance of social distancing guidelines. Suddenly, millions of employees are working from home. Having access to cloud services to connect to one another and continue working has helped businesses keep...

/ April 9, 2020