Christmas holidays are upon us and we come bearing gifts!

More resources to more users for more time!

We are happy to announce that the more.cyclades.users project has just got renewed for 1 more year.

Hold on, there is more...

We have 500 more resource packs on our Christmas boat!
Ιf you are a user with no compute resources, hurry up and join the more.cyclades.users project now!

Have a jolly Christmas,
the ~okeanos team

Hello ~okeanos users,

We are happy to announce that on Wednesday, September 21 2016 between 09:00 and 11:00 EET we will be doing a major upgrade to the ~okeanos service, with a new version of the Synnefo software.

During the upgrade Astakos, Cyclades and Pithos+ Web UIs and their APIs will be unavailable. Your VMs and Pithos+ files should remain unaffected.

After the upgrade, you will be able to enjoy more robust services with several improvements and additions across ~okeanos, as well as some pithos+ performance enhancements.

Last but not least, don't forget to check out our ... read more

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