Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition

hi!

the trial period of our symantec endpoint sbe finishes today.

On cloud console i click on the buy now button but then on symantec's shop i can only buy symantec endpoint cloud, it seems that endpoint sbe is nos yet avaible for new users.

can you help me ?

thanks

Hi Jean,

Not sure if you came right, but have you tried here?

https://www.symantec.com/business/products/endpoint-protection-small-business#productPurchase

Thanks!

I would suggest that you avoid buying SEP SBE.  My information is less than perfect, but as a Symantec parenter I've been under advisement that SEP SBE will be discontinued at some point, with SEP Cloud being the product you should go to.  I've attended several partner webinars over the past year or more that have all said this, but of course the marketing folks at Symantec have yet to learn to make things clear to the public (and that's not a jibe - it's very true, ask anyone who's been around a while).  

If your deployment is big, like 100's of endpoints, continue as you can via CragV's advise or what not.  But if you have the option, dispense with SEP SBE and go with SEP Cloud, also known as Endpoint Protection Cloud.  Not to be confused with SEP SBE Cloud, which is not actually a product name but just the ocnfused verbage used by people wanting to differentiate SEP SBE on-premises server vs. the cloud management version that had come out a few years ago.  Sigh, not to be confused with Symantec Endpoitn Protection, which is a full enterprise platofmr, which has it's own on-prem vs. cloud management structure.  

I mean, if Symantec could just get their message out withotu so much puzzlement I bet sales would jump 20%. lol

Ok turns out you can't buy SEP SBE anymore, only renew if you have licensing.  Not sure if you can transition from a trial to paid licensing which perhaps could be seen as a renewal of sorts - but I defer to CraigV and others who know more than I do on this.  All I know: SEP SBE is on it's way out and there is no sense in investing in a platform that is slated for decommisioning, given that SEPC: Device licensing costs the same, and SEPC: User is more economical per-device if you can swing it to where you're using multiple user devices under a single User license (if that just confused you - let me know I'll explain further).