American company SUN Microsystems sells computers, hardware, software, and IT services. It was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company is known for the development of the Java platform and NFS, and as a champion of open systems in general and UNIX in particular; it has recently emerged as one of the leading proponentsand the leading contributorof open source software. Its products include computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC and AMD's Opteron processors, storage systems, and a suite of software products including the Solaris Operating System, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications.
The first day that Sun allowed users to buy access over the Internet to its public utility grid, a denial-of service attack forced the company to take down a service hosted on the grid. In order to deal with the attack, Sun moved the translation service so that it can only be accessed by users who are logged onto the Sun Grid as a registered user. The service launched meant to allow anyone to order usage of the grid over the Internet, paying via PayPal (1 USD per CPU per hour).
Attack hits Sun public grid service on day one (23/03/2006) www.networkworld.com/news/2006/032306-attack-sun-public-grid.html
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