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

UPDATE: Everything is operating normally. If you still encounter any problems, please let us know at support@okeanos.grnet.gr

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Dear ~okeanos users,

From Friday September 9, at 9 p.m., we have observed some functionality problems that affect a number of Virtual Machines as well as Pithos+.
We are working hard in order to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

We apologise for the inconvenience,
the ~okeanos team

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