How GoAnywhere integrates with your Hybrid Cloud

Recent research by IMARC Group and Forrester shows Australian organisations increasingly using Hybrid Cloud as a strategic bridge between legacy systems and modern cloud-native applications.  

Hybrid Cloud enables them to modernise without abandoning critical infrastructure. By integrating on-premises environments with public cloud platforms, businesses can maintain control over sensitive or complex legacy workloads while gradually introducing scalable, agile cloud-native services. This duality enables seamless data flow, API-driven interoperability, and phased migration strategies—essential for industries bound by compliance or technical debt.  

GoAnywhere MFT — the world’s leading Managed File Transfer solution — facilitates businesses on this path by offering “Cloud Connectors” that seamlessly integrate GoAnywhere with external cloud services. 

Also referred to as “cloud integrations”, Cloud Connectors offer out-of-the-box connectors for GoAnywhere to popular services including Salesforce, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Box, and Dropbox. 

For example: 

One a trading partner might ask you to share an important file it via a folder in Dropbox. Or perhaps there are contacts or billing information to be updated automatically in Salesforce.  GoAnywhere’s Cloud Connectors enables these tasks to be done easily and securely. 

Broad Range 

Cloud Connectors are easily downloaded from GoAnywhere MFT’s integrated Marketplace, which features Connectors for the most commonly used cloud services. 

These include: 

• Alibaba Object Storage Service 

• Amazon Cloud Trail, CloudWatch, EC2, Lambda, SNS, and SQS  

• Atlassian JIRA 

• Automate Plus 

• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 (superseded by Gen2) and Storage Queue 

• Box 

• Citrix ShareFile 

• Dropbox 

• Egnyte 

• GateScanner CDR 

• GoAnywhere Command 

• Google Cloud Storage, Drive, and Translate 

• JAMS 

• Jenkins 

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, 365 CRM, OneDrive, Sharepoint Online and Sharepoint On-Premise 

• OPSWAT MetaDefender 

• Salesforce 

• ServiceNow 

• SMA OpCon Scheduler 

• SOS Berlin JobScheduler (Online version not supported) 

• Trello 

• Veeva CRM 

• Votiro 

• Webdocs 

• Zendesk (Online version not supported) 

Configuring Cloud Connectors 

Once a Cloud Connector is installed, its connection properties can be configured as a GoAnywhere Resource. This only needs to be performed once, and can then be seamlessly reused in any workflows and cloud file transfers. 

A Cloud Connector definition contains the various actions required to communicate with cloud applications. For example:  

• authentication 

• logging 

• file transfer 

• file management and  

• error handling. 

  
  

In GoAnywhere, these actions appear as elements located under the Cloud Connector in the GoAnywhere Project Designer. Elements can be incorporated into a business’s workflows alongside other project tasks, and processes can even be automated between multiple web and cloud services at once. 

New GoAnywhere connectors can be downloaded without needing to update the software. 

No Connector? No problem 

While GoAnywhere Marketplace contains a broad array of Cloud Connectors, you may also want to connect to a unique external service. 

Custom connectors are the answer.   And at Generic Systems Australia, we can design and develop Custom Connectors for you, using GoAnywhere’s Cloud Connector Designer. 

If you’d like to discuss how your organisation’s file transfers to external cloud providers can be made more efficient and secure, please feel welcome to get in touch with me. I’m always happy to have an obligation-free discussion, explain how easy it is to transition to an improved file transfer approach, and offer you a zero-cost Proof of Concept.  

At Generic Systems Australia, we’re your local experts in Managed File Transfer.