Beware! An ~orka is now "swimming" in the ~okeanos waters, representing what else? Big Data!

~okeanos and big data analytics can now be combined using the Hadoop ecosystem over the ~orka Platform.
But what does this practically mean? Well, now you can easily configure, spawn and maintain big data deployments in ~okeanos choosing from a variety of mature, well established tools and solutions around the Hadoop 2.x (YARN) ecosystem.
Select the flavours you need for master and slave nodes and move on to manage your cluster. Forgot to mention though; ~orka runs out-of-the-box: No ... read more

While celebrating the launch of the new Pithos+ Web UI, we are offering a try-it-out 5GB Pithos+ cloud storage for 1 year to the 500 first applicants! This offer is strictly for users with no file storage space.
Join the more.pithos.users project now!

Enjoy and use wisely :)
the ~okeanos team

Hello everybody,

Easter has passed but hopefully you wouldn't say no to one last Easter Egg full of little surprises! The new Synnefo version 0.17 has just been released and we are pretty sure you will get excited with all the new features.

Let's see what is hidden into it:

Pithos+ Web UI: rewritten from scratch, it is modern, faster and easier to use. In other words, it looks good and lets you do more. Thanks to the new, responsive layout and revised functional design, Pithos+ is now accessible and functional on touch devices. The intuitive sharing mechanism, and the ... read more

Hello ~okeanos users,

We are happy to announce that on Thursday, May 12 2016 we will be doing a major upgrade to the ~okeanos service, with a new version of the Synnefo software.

The upgrade will start at 08:00 EET and we expect it to last 3 hours, until 11:00 EET.
During the upgrade Astakos, Cyclades and Pithos+ Web UIs and their APIs will be unavailable.
Your standard-storage VMs and Pithos+ files should remain unaffected. However, the disk of your archipelago VMs may freeze for a few minutes in the above timeframe.

After the upgrade, you will be able to ... read more

We'd like to inform you about scheduled maintenance/upgrade for ~okeanos service between 08:00 EET and 10:00 EET on Wednesday, April 27.

Your VMs and Pithos+ files should remain unaffected.
Maintenance is expected to cause disruptions to ~okeanos services. Astakos, Cyclades and Pithos+ Web UIs and their APIs will be unavailable for a short time during the upgrade.

No loss of connectivity is expected for the VMs.

Thanks for your understanding,
the ~okeanos team