A system and method are provided for in-network power management of network-connected devices. A first computing device, having a power management module, is able to access an in-network computing device table stored in a local memory, of network-connected computing devices cross-referenced to computing device processing capabilities. The power management module retrieves processing capabilities from the in-network computing device table for a network-connected second computing device, and sends a Wake-on-Local Area Network (LAN) message to the second computing device. Subsequently, the power management module sends a server-on-cloud power management message (power management packet) to the second computing device, with instructions for enabling capabilities related to processing or memory management.