Brigitte Raumann's Blog

  • Globus meets new security expectations for NIH controlled-access data

    December 05, 2024  |  Brigitte Raumann

    NIH has announced an Implementation Update for Data Management and Access Practices Under the Genomic Data Sharing Policy. Effective January 25, 2025, Approved Users of NIH controlled-access data must attest they maintain such data on institutional IT systems and third-party computing infrastructures compliant with NIST SP 800-171. You can use Globus data management services to meet these new NIH security best practices for controlled-access data at your institution.

  • Maintenance Downtime for Database Upgrades - Saturday, November 2, 2024

    October 16, 2024  |  Brigitte Raumann

    To accommodate required database upgrades, Globus services will be unavailable for up to one hour beginning at 9:00 am US Central on Saturday, November 2, 2024.

  • Support for Globus Connect Server version 4 ends on December 18, 2023

    June 21, 2023  |  Brigitte Raumann

    Globus Connect Server version 5 represents a major evolutionary step in the Globus Connect Server architecture and the latest release has been in production since July, 2020. Support for Globus Connect Server version 4 will be discontinued on December 18, 2023.

  • Maintenance Downtime for Database Upgrades - Saturday, March 11, 2023

    February 17, 2023  |  Brigitte Raumann

    To accommodate required database upgrades, Globus services will be unavailable for up to two hours beginning at 10 am US Central on Saturday, March 11, 2023.

  • Globus Connect Server v4 will be deprecated July 31, 2023

    January 26, 2023  |  Brigitte Raumann

    We closed out 2022 by releasing support for migration of all Globus Connect Server version 4 deployment configurations. Today we are announcing that Globus Connect Server version 4 will be...

  • GenePattern users can leverage Globus transfers for analysis of large biomedical datasets

    July 07, 2022  |  Brigitte Raumann

    With the increasing prevalence of new ‘omics technologies such as single-cell RNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics, as well as multi-omic analysis methods that integrate datasets from different ‘omics domains, bioinformatics tools...

  • Maintenance Downtime for Database Upgrades - June 18, 2022

    June 03, 2022  |  Brigitte Raumann

    To accommodate database upgrades, Globus services will be unavailable for up to an hour beginning at 9 am US Central on Saturday, June 18, 2022. During this planned downtime, the...

  • Scheduled and recurring transfers now available in the Globus web app

    November 17, 2021  |  Brigitte Raumann

    Today we released Globus web app support for scheduled and regularly repeating transfers. Now scheduling a recurring transfer is as easy as scheduling a recurring meeting. Nightly backups to cloud...

  • Migrating to Globus Connect Server Version 5

    October 20, 2021  |  Brigitte Raumann

    Globus Connect Server version 5 (GCSv5) provides new capabilities and enhancements for both administrators and users and offers platform features that allow developers to build interesting data management solutions. Among...

  • Maintenance Downtime for Database Upgrades - September 18 2021

    September 10, 2021  |  Brigitte Raumann

    To accommodate database upgrades, Globus Auth and Transfer services will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes beginning at 10 am US Central on Saturday, September 18, 2021. During this...

  • Globus now supports recurring and scheduled transfers

    January 29, 2021  |  Brigitte Raumann

    We’re excited to announce that Globus now supports recurring and scheduled transfers. The new feature allows you to submit a job that will reliably request periodic transfers with a defined...

  • New Globus Web App is Live

    November 07, 2018  |  Brigitte Raumann

    Today we released the redesigned web app in production at app.globus.org! This replaces the old web app, which now is deprecated and will be discontinued in April 2019. Key resources:...

  • Beta Release of New Globus Web App

    October 11, 2018  |  Brigitte Raumann

    At GlobusWorld 2018, we announced ongoing work to redesign the Globus web app. We appreciate all the input we have received since then from users who tested the new web...

  • Updates to Globus Privacy Notice to Align with the GDPR

    May 22, 2018  |  Brigitte Raumann

    As you may know, on May 25, 2018, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will impose new obligations on organizations that control or process personally identifiable information about individuals...

  • When Trivial Becomes Critical: File Transfer and its Role in Genomic Sequencing

    May 19, 2011  |  Brigitte Raumann

    I think I can speak for most biologists when I say I never thought I would be worrying about file transfer. Compute power, yes. Storage space, maybe. But file transfer?...