Goodwill And Other Intangible Assets

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2012

Goodwill and Intangible Assets Disclosure [Abstract]

8. GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLE ASSETS

Goodwill

The Company accounts for goodwill in accordance with the authoritative guidance, which requires that goodwill and certain intangible assets are not amortized, but are subject to an annual impairment test. There was no impairment of goodwill as a result of the annual impairment test analysis completed during the fourth quarter of 2011. There were no indicators of impairment during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012. Excluding goodwill, the Company has no intangible assets deemed to have indefinite lives. See Note 4 for more information regarding the Company's acquisitions and Note 9 for more information regarding the Company's segments.

The following table presents the change in goodwill allocated to the Company’s reportable segments during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 (in thousands):



	Balance at January 1, 2012		Additions			Other				Balance at September 30, 2012
Enterprise division	$	956,504	$	245,900		$	(53,949	)	(2)	$	1,148,455
Online Services division	282,616		26,481			46,821			(2)	355,918
Consolidated	$	1,239,120	$	272,381	(1)	$	(7,128	)		$	1,504,373


(1)	Amount primarily relates to acquisitions. See Note 4 for more information regarding the Company’s acquisitions.

(2)

Amount primarily relates to reclassification of goodwill between segments. In the first quarter of 2012, the Company transferred the business acquired in its acquisition of ShareFile from its Enterprise division to its Online Services division. Also included in the Online Services division is foreign currency translation. See Note 4 for more information regarding the Company's acquisitions and Note 9 for more information regarding the Company's segments.

Intangible Assets

The Company has intangible assets with finite lives that are recorded at cost, less accumulated amortization. Amortization is computed over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets, generally three to seven years, except for patents, which are amortized over the lesser of their remaining life or ten years. Intangible assets consist of the following (in thousands):



	September 30, 2012				December 31, 2011
	Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization		Gross Carrying Amount		Accumulated Amortization
Product related intangible assets	$	618,565	$	317,332	$	472,582	$	268,332
Other	434,038		160,247		274,816		135,694
Total	$	1,052,603	$	477,579	$	747,398	$	404,026

Amortization of product related intangible assets, which consists primarily of product-related technologies and patents, was $22.9 million and $14.7 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and $56.6 million and $39.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and is classified as a component of Cost of net revenues in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income. Amortization of other intangible assets, which consist primarily of customer relationships, trade names and covenants not to compete was $9.8 million and $4.4 million for the three months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and $25.5 million and $11.9 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, respectively, and is classified as a component of Operating expenses in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income. The Company monitors its intangible assets for indicators of impairment. If the Company determines that an impairment has occurred, it will write-down the intangible asset to its fair value. For the nine months ended September 30, 2012, Amortization of other intangible assets includes a $5.2 million impairment related to the Company's decision to contribute its CloudStack tradename acquired in conjunction with its acquisition of Cloud.com to the Apache Software Foundation. As a result, the carrying value of the CloudStack tradename was written down to zero. See Note 4 for more information regarding the Company's acquisitions.

Estimated future amortization expense is as follows (in thousands):



Year ending December 31,
2012	$	114,754
2013	123,905
2014	115,952
2015	94,321
2016	73,071

- Definition

The entire disclosure for the aggregate amount of goodwill and a description of intangible assets, which may include (a) for amortizable intangible assets (also referred to as finite-lived intangible assets), the carrying amount, the amount of any significant residual value, and the weighted-average amortization period, (b) for intangible assets not subject to amortization (also referred to as indefinite-lived intangible assets), the carrying amount, and (c) the amount of research and development assets acquired and written off in the period, including the line item in the income statement in which the amounts written off are aggregated, if not readily apparent from the income statement. Also discloses (a) for amortizable intangibles assets in total and by major class, the gross carrying amount and accumulated amortization, the total amortization expense for the period, and the estimated aggregate amortization expense for each of the five succeeding fiscal years, (b) for intangible assets not subject to amortization the carrying amount in total and by major class, and (c) for goodwill, in total and for each reportable segment, the changes in the carrying amount of goodwill during the period (including the aggregate amount of goodwill acquired, the aggregate amount of impairment losses recognized, and the amount of goodwill included in the gain (loss) on disposal of a reporting unit). If any part of goodwill has not been allocated to a reportable segment, discloses the unallocated amount and the reasons for not allocating. For each impairment loss recognized related to an intangible asset (excluding goodwill), discloses: (a) a description of the impaired intangible asset and the facts and circumstances leading to the impairment, (b) the amount of the impairment loss and the method for determining fair value, (c) the caption in the income statement or the statement of activities in which the impairment loss is aggregated, and (d) the segment in which the impaired intangible asset is reported. For each goodwill impairment loss recognized, discloses: (a) a description of the facts and circumstances leading to the impairment, (b) the amount of the impairment loss and the method of determining the fair value of the associated reporting unit, and (c) if a recognized impairment loss is an estimate not finalized and the reasons why the estimate is not final. May also disclose the nature and amount of any significant adjustments made to a previous estimate of an impairment loss.

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