Eight Forthcoming Products and Market Trend Predictions from Eaton

The first edition of Eaton’s Visual Power Manager (VPM), an RMM-like solution for managing UPS and PDU products from Eaton and other vendors, reached market late in 2016. Designed primarily for use by IT providers and departments with thousands of power quality devices to manage, the system is usually overkill for VARs and MSPs serving modest numbers of smaller businesses. Eaton plans to close that gap soon, though, with a cloud-based management solution aimed specifically at channel pros.

“[It] will be really focused at the SMB market,” says Herve Tardy, vice president and general manager of Eaton’s distributed power quality division.

Due towards the middle of the year, the new and as yet unnamed solution will offer native integration with managed services software from Tampa, Fla.-based ConnectWise. A separate plug-in will enable users to run the system directly from inside ConnectWise applications as well if they prefer.