Hello happy ~okeanos users,

Today we have a treat for everybody who would like a taste of real UNIX, coming all the way from the good old days.

The first FreeBSD image is now available for use on ~okeanos. Try it out!

Create your own VM, check out how original UNIX feels and let us know what you think.

Enjoy,
the ~okeanos team

Hi all,

Some of you may have already noticed that a new "Projects" tab has popped up on your Dashboard. Let's see what this is all about.

Projects such as assignments, exercises and research experiments are quite common in academia. Most of the time, they rely heavily on the computing, network and storage resources at hand; resources that you may not have, or that is difficult to reserve for your colleagues or students.

Unsuprisingly, for a while now we have been receiving requests such as:

"Can I have more VMs to share with my students for a CPU-intensive semester ... read more

When it comes to pushing the boundaries of speed, one has to rethink the basic concepts of the backend storage technology. And if we want to talk about cloud elasticity, one has to wonder:

How can I spawn a VM with 100GB System Disk in seconds?
Or a cluster of 100 VMs in a few minutes?

Well, enter Archipelago, a new, innovative Storage Backend for your VM data. Archipelago literally means "a cluster of islands", distinct from one another yet often with the same culture and morphology.

... read more

UPDATE: Maintenance completed successfully

The Cyclades and Pithos Web UI and APIs will be inaccessible on Wednesday, Apr 3 2013 09:00-16:00 EEST due to scheduled maintenance with regard to the Pithos backend storage hardware. We will be doing all the necessary actions to be able to move to a new technology in the future that will enable us to provide even more features.

Your VMs and Pithos files should remain unaffected in the above timeframe. You will also have full access to your VMs through the network during the maintenance window.

Thank you,
the ~okeanos team

Hello everybody,

We are happy to announce that as of today, all Linux desktop images provided under the "System" tab of the creation wizard, have been updated to have the X2Go Server pre-installed. X2Go is a great tool that allows you to connect remotely to your VMs and actually see their GUI. It's the same as using Remote Desktop (RDP) on Windows VMs. What's more, you 'll find that it is also very fast and secure.





For those that have tried NX in the past, we definitely ... read more