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If you've been using JSCAPE MFT Server, you know how important triggers are in automating business processes. In fact, many of our customers have hundreds of triggers (some even have over a thousand) running on their MFT Server instances. In these scenarios, it's always useful to have the ability to copy trigger configurations from one domain or server to another.

When you have a multi-cloud infrastructure, there will be several instances when you'll want to transfer data from one cloud platform to another. Perhaps you'd want to aggregate data, perform backups, carry out migrations, and so on. Whatever the case may be, you'll normally want to perform these data transfers automatically. One way to do that is by using JSCAPE MFT Server.

Organizations with hybrid infrastructures consisting of cloud-based and on-premise solutions will usually need the ability to conduct automated data transfers between these two domains. JSCAPE MFT Server's extensive cloud integration features can be a big help in meeting this requirement. In this particular example, we're going to demonstrate how easy it is to set up MFT Server to monitor a folder in an Amazon S3 bucket and automatically download each file added there.

Some JSCAPE MFT Server customers are looking to migrate to OpenJDK distributions in order to avoid the Oracle Java paid subscriptions. JSCAPE MFT Server readily supports OpenJDK, so you won't lose any of its capabilities when you do an Oracle JDK to OpenJDK migration. In this post, we'll show you just how easy it is to do such a migration on a Linux host.

JSCAPE MFT Server customers who want to avoid the Oracle Java paid subscriptions can simply migrate to any of the free open Java (OpenJDK) distributions. JSCAPE MFT Server readily supports OpenJDK, so you won't lose any of its capabilities when you do an Oracle Java to OpenJDK migration. In this post, we'll show you just how easy it is to do that on a Windows host.

One of the most common ways of transferring data between Windows servers is through the Server Message Block (SMB) network file sharing protocol. A lot of organizations, for instance, use it for exchanging data between branch offices across a wide area network (WAN). If you want to know how to schedule an automated file transfer via Windows SMB share (or maybe a Samba share on Linux), read this post. If you want to see it in action, request a free trial of JSCAPE.

The ability to perform automated file transfers to a cloud-based storage solution like Dropbox can be a valuable asset to businesses who want to benefit from the scalability and cost-efficiency of the cloud or who simply need to transfer data to a trading partner's online storage. If that's something you can use, you can learn how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server to carry out scheduled automated Dropbox file transfers in this post.

Last time, we taught you how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server so that files uploaded via FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS, and other file transfer services can be stored in the Box cloud storage solution. This would allow you to take advantage of the scalability, high availability and cost efficiency of the cloud infrastructure. But if you're more familiar with DropBox and want to use it for this purpose, you can do that as well.

A file transfer server that stores user files in cloud storage solutions has many advantages. This would mean, your storage would be more scalable, highly available, cost-efficient, and secure. JSCAPE MFT Server easily integrates with several cloud storage solutions like AWS S3, Azure Files, Google Storage, Box, DropBox, and IBM Cloud, so that when users transfer files to it via FTPS, SFTP, AS2, HTTPS, and so on, those files will be stored directly into one of these cloud storage solutions.

The ability to transfer files automatically to a cloud-based storage solution like Box.com can be a valuable asset to businesses who want to benefit from the scalability and cost-efficiency of the cloud or who simply need to transfer data to a trading partner's online storage. In this post, we'll teach you how to configure JSCAPE MFT Server to carry out scheduled automated file uploads to Box.