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Speaking to partners this week, Eaton executive Herve Tardy (pictured) previewed forthcoming RMM integrations, a new asset management tool, a wave of security-related UPS upgrades, and the eventual arrival of “software-defined power.”
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Neither a vacation nor several feet of snow is enough to keep Erick Simpson from joining Rich Freeman for a discussion of Eaton’s new partner program, how and why to build an employee certification program, and (just in time for Valentine’s Day) Tinder for cows.
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Speaking with ChannelPro at the power quality vendor’s annual partner summit event, executives credited an ongoing infrastructure refresh cycle, a reorganized sales team, and a heightened emphasis on solution selling for its recent sales momentum.
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The latest edition of the power quality vendor’s PartnerAdvantage program, which includes a new managed services track, imposes higher requirements but also rewards the most committed partners with higher discounts and added benefits.
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Nearly two years into a strategic, partner-focused campaign aimed at increasing sales to mid-market and now businesses as well, the power quality vendor has grown its sales team by 25 percent and re-organized it around a new set of more targeted roles.
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According to executives like Herve Tardy (pictured), the power quality vendor had its first million-dollar software revenue quarter last year, and is growing sales of power management applications at a 2x month-over-month rate.
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The power quality vendor has cloud-based management software and a new partner program for MSPs coming this year, and sees great things ahead for edge computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined infrastructure beyond that.
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Cloud or no cloud, the power and availability vendor says, there’s still plenty of electricity-hungry on-site hardware out there for channel pros to keep continuously up and running.
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- Universal Rack Power Distribution Unit (UPDU) simplifies procurement, management and deployment for large, colocation and hyperscale data centers
- Co-engineered solution delivers standardized design to meet Open Rack standards
- Can be used across a wide range of input power ratings
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