Difference between Cisco Email Security Appliance, Cisco Email Security Virtual Appliance and Cisco Cloud Email Security

[pbabu6001]

Hi,

Please explain the difference between

Difference between Cisco Email Security Appliance, Cisco Email Security Virtual Appliance and Cisco Cloud Email Security.

[Ken Stieers · Accepted solution]

Cisco Email Security Appliance is a physical server (used to be Dell, now Cisco UCS) that has "AsyncOS for Email" on it.

Cisco Email Security Virtual Appliance is a VMware virtual machine, running that same software, on your infrastructure.

Cisco Cloud Email Security is basically 2 vms running that same software, hosted by Cisco where you get access to most of its configuration.

[pbabu6001]

Can you explain me with more details? Thank you!

[Ken Stieers]

???

Its all the same software:

Do you want it on a box you rack? Cisco Email Security Appliance 

Do you want it as a VM? Cisco Email Security Virtual Appliance

Do you want someone else to host it for you? Cisco Cloud Email Security

Find your Cisco Sales guy if you need more than that...

[pbabu6001]

Which deployment will have less price?

Differentiate persons needed to support Virtual and cloud apart from Cisco.

Thank you!

[Ken Stieers]

Generally VMs ought to have a lower price over the appliance (you don't have to buy the hardware).

I don't know anything about pricing for the Cloud...when they announced, the smallest they were licensing was 500 seats, and we were in the 200's...

You REALLY should find a decent reseller...