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We were notified last week by STFC that there will be non-extension of contract for one of its main service providers by the end of March due to soaring extension costs. This will result in the need to migrate all tenancies on JASMIN to the STFC cloud in the coming months. We will endeavor to make the migration as unnoticeable to users as possible, as we have done previously. Please be assured during this process that your data is securely backed up, and every action will be taken to ensure there is minimal downtime or impact, however there is a remote possibility that DataLabs will be unavailable for a period of time.
At this time the JASMIN team are assessing how best to complete the process while simultaneously extending short term support. For transparency their announcement is shown below this message. STFC hopes this migration will result in a more stable service with added features in the long term.
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