Hello okeanos users,

Many of you have already noticed that the beta version of ~okeanos manages your IPs in a new way. Our previous blog post explains what are the new features. We will provide some excerpts of this blog post below:

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Public IPs

Next to your 'machines' and 'networks' two new tabs just appeared. The first one reads 'public IPs'. Until now, every machine that you created got connected to the public network (Internet) and was automatically assigned a public IPv4 by the ~okeanos infrastructure. Although this was sufficient for most of you, our advanced users asked ... read more

Ladies and Gentlemen, the time has come.

Today ~okeanos opens its doors to the whole Greek Academic and Research community. Everyone that has an account on a Greek Academic or Research institution can instanlty login (by clicking "Academic Login") and get:

• 2 VMs
• 2 vCPUs
• 6GB RAM
• 100GB System Disk
• 5 Private Networks
• 1 Public IPv4
• 50GB File Storage Space

Furthermore, one can get additional resources by applying for an ~okeanos Project, which will get manually moderated by the ~okeanos team. Projects can be found on your ~okeanos Dashboard and starting today, they are your new best friends.

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Hello everybody,

Two days left for beta and new features are already here!

As you may have already noticed, new things have popped up on your ~okeanos Web UI. And new things are under the hood too. Let's take a quick tour:

1. Active CPUs and RAM

Starting today, we introduce a new, more sophisticated tracking mechanism for your CPUs and RAM that will allow you to create even more machines. How does it work?

We now track only your active CPUs and RAM. This results in CPU and RAM usage only when your machine is running. If you shutdown ... read more

Hello everybody,

Beta is closing up and new stuff is already here! Today, we upgraded the virtual hardware for your VMs in the latest and greatest version. This means that any new VMs you create will run on the new virtual hardware.

We also know that everybody would like their old machines (which are already running with old virtual hardware) to get upgraded too. So, we've got you covered too. Just reboot your old machines from the ~okeanos Web UI and they will automatically get ugraded to the new virtual hardware. Note that rebooting ... read more

Got plans for the 18th of December 2013? ;-)