Mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures
- 2003 – Rhapsody Networks
- 2005 – Therion Software Corporation
- 2006 – NuView, Inc. Develops software solutions for enterprise file data management.
- 2007 – Silverback Systems, Inc. Provides network acceleration technologies.
- 2007 – McDATA. Key competitor in the Fibre Channel switch and director market.
- 2008 – Strategic Business Systems. Storage professional services company.
- 2008 – Foundry Networks. Ethernet Switches and Routers Maker.
- 2012 - Vyatta, Inc. Software-based networking technologies. The deal was completed on Nov.9, 2012.
Of note is that acquisition of Foundry at a price of approximately $2.6 Billion in December 2008 resulted in approximately $2B in goodwill moving to Brocade's asset sheets, of which approximately $1.8B still remained as of Q42011.
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