Coradiant was an American software developer that developed products for managing and troubleshooting web applications. BMC Software acquired Coradiant on 28 April 2011 for $130 million in cash.
History
Networkshop
In 1997, Alistair Croll and Eric Packman founded Network shop in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The company worked on highly available web infrastructures, published reports and studies on subjects such as load balancing and SSL Performance. It also added Jean-François Dumoulin as co-founder and that the company grew to roughly 15 employees.
As part of its research, Network shop developed a method for virtualizing the front-end infrastructure of web hosting systems. Working with a variety of firewall, load-balancer, switch, and cryptography vendors, the company deployed this shared infrastructure in a Montreal data center run by UUNET, and connected it to customers' servers within the same data center.
Coradiant founding
In late 1999, Cary Goldwax and Thanos Moschopoulos joined the company and renamed it Coradiant. The name was a reflection of the shared duties of running highly available web infrastructure, literally, "brilliant together."