How Does FortiMail Compare To FortiMail Cloud?

[SecurityPlus]

Curious how these compare? Are both versions being widely used? Thanks in advance,

[emnoc · Accepted solution]

They work about the same and no on the last question but a lot of org are moving to cloud protection.  It has various subscription levels and is geared for org that has or do not want to use a dedicate email-admin ( i.e medium to sml-biz )

Keep in mind fortimailcloud is very much more new than the on premise mail ESA concept. So give it some time.

Ken Felix

[SecurityPlus]

Thanks emnoc!

[Carl_Windsor_FTNT]

Not so fast @emnoc, there are some misconceptions here:

>Are both versions being widely used?  No

This is not correct any longer.  Over 25% of our deployments per quarter and growing are cloud based.  FortiMail Cloud is fast becoming one of the main deployment methods.

>it is geared for org that has or do not want to use a dedicate email-admin ( i.e medium to sml-biz )

It certainly suits such organisations but is definitely not limited to that.  We have a large number of MSSP and large enterprise (>10K mailbox) deployments.