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

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

Now you can use your ~okeanos account to send email attachments from Thunderbird. With our new plugin for Filelink you can simply point to a file and let Thunderbird take care of all the hassle uploading and linking the file with your Pithos+ account. Get it now and forget about the file size restriction in attachments.

Enjoy,
the ~okeanos team

Hello everybody,

Starting today, new VM flavors are available at the creation wizard, that let you create VMs with more CPUs, more RAM and larger System Disks. As you may have already noticed at your "Usage" tab, and described in the previous post, we have also increased your limits with regard to RAM and System Disk to 8GB and 100GB respectively.

This means that you can now create up to 2 VMs that cumulatively take up to 8 CPUs, 8GB of RAM and 100GB of System Disk. Using the new flavors you can ... read more