Acquisitions and Divestitures	6 Months Ended
May 03, 2014
Business Combinations [Abstract]
Acquisitions and Divestitures	Acquisitions and Divestitures Divestitures On January 17, 2014, the Company completed the sale of its network adapter business to QLogic Corporation, as part of the Company’s business strategy to focus development on a portfolio of high performance networking products and services--both hardware and software-based--that meet the demands of today’s virtualized and cloud based data centers. The net carrying amount of the divested network adapter business’ assets and liabilities was $5.1 million, comprised primarily of associated goodwill of $4.1 million. The sale resulted in a gain of $4.9 million, which is presented in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as “Gain on sale of network adapter business.” Acquisitions On November 9, 2012, the Company completed its acquisition of Vyatta, Inc. (“Vyatta”), a privately held developer of a software-based network operating system suite headquartered in Belmont, California. Vyatta became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company as a result of the acquisition. The Vyatta software-based network operating system suite is deployed on conventional computer hardware platforms for multiple applications in network virtualization, software-defined networking (“SDN”), Network Functions Virtualization (“NFV”), and other private/public cloud computing platforms. This acquisition complements Brocade’s investments in Internet Protocol (“IP”) switches and router products and enables Brocade to pursue new market opportunities in data center virtualization, including public cloud, virtual private cloud, and managed services. The results of operations of Vyatta are included in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations from the date of the acquisition. The Company does not consider the acquisition of Vyatta to be material to its results of operations or financial position, and therefore, Brocade is not presenting pro-forma financial information of combined operations. The total purchase price was $44.8 million, consisting of $43.6 million cash consideration and $1.2 million related to prepaid license fees paid by the Company to Vyatta that was effectively settled at the recorded amount as a result of the acquisition. Of the cash consideration, $7.0 million will be held in escrow for a period of 18 months from the closing of the acquisition and will be released subject to resolution of certain contingencies. In addition, the Company paid direct acquisition costs of $0.4 million. In connection with this acquisition, the Company allocated the total purchase consideration to the net assets and liabilities acquired, including identifiable intangible assets, based on their respective fair values at the acquisition date.

Acquisitions and Divestitures

Divestitures

On January 17, 2014, the Company completed the sale of its network adapter business to QLogic Corporation, as part of the Company’s business strategy to focus development on a portfolio of high performance networking products and services--both hardware and software-based--that meet the demands of today’s virtualized and cloud based data centers.

The net carrying amount of the divested network adapter business’ assets and liabilities was $5.1 million, comprised primarily of associated goodwill of $4.1 million. The sale resulted in a gain of $4.9 million, which is presented in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations as “Gain on sale of network adapter business.”

Acquisitions

On November 9, 2012, the Company completed its acquisition of Vyatta, Inc. (“Vyatta”), a privately held developer of a software-based network operating system suite headquartered in Belmont, California. Vyatta became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company as a result of the acquisition. The Vyatta software-based network operating system suite is deployed on conventional computer hardware platforms for multiple applications in network virtualization, software-defined networking (“SDN”), Network Functions Virtualization (“NFV”), and other private/public cloud computing platforms. This acquisition complements Brocade’s investments in Internet Protocol (“IP”) switches and router products and enables Brocade to pursue new market opportunities in data center virtualization, including public cloud, virtual private cloud, and managed services.

The results of operations of Vyatta are included in the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations from the date of the acquisition. The Company does not consider the acquisition of Vyatta to be material to its results of operations or financial position, and therefore, Brocade is not presenting pro-forma financial information of combined operations.

The total purchase price was $44.8 million, consisting of $43.6 million cash consideration and $1.2 million related to prepaid license fees paid by the Company to Vyatta that was effectively settled at the recorded amount as a result of the acquisition. Of the cash consideration, $7.0 million will be held in escrow for a period of 18 months from the closing of the acquisition and will be released subject to resolution of certain contingencies. In addition, the Company paid direct acquisition costs of $0.4 million. In connection with this acquisition, the Company allocated the total purchase consideration to the net assets and liabilities acquired, including identifiable intangible assets, based on their respective fair values at the acquisition date.