UPDATE: All works completed successfully

We'd like to inform you about scheduled maintenance/upgrade for ~okeanos-global service between 09:00 EET and 11:00 EET on Wednesday, October 19.

Your VMs and Pithos+ files should remain unaffected. Maintenance is expected to cause minor disruptions to the ~okeanos-global service. 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.

Hello ~okeanos-global 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-global 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-global, as well as some pithos+ performance enhancements.

Enjoy,
the ~okeanos-global team

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

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Dear ~okeanos-global 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-global 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

Hi ~okeanos-global users,

A new critical vulnerability in glibc has recently been discovered. This security issue is a stack-based buffer overflow problem, which can be exploited by malicious users to execute code remotely. This affects all Linux systems.

Because of this, we strongly advise you to update immediately the glibc packages in your operating system and restart your virtual machines immediately after the updates.

In order to update Debian and Debian derivative systems you may execute:

and for CentOS/RHEL:

Take care,
the ~okeanos-global ... read more