Brocade-Vyatta
Money Involved: Undisclosed
Why It Matters: Brocade's been on the ropes in recent years, but its last few quarters' worth of earnings have shown signs of strength, and in Vyatta, it's made a key acquisition while in an upswing. Vyatta, a well-liked virtualized networking startup, has an operating system based on open-source software that's portable to standard x86 hardware as well as most virtualization and cloud platforms. It's expected to give Brocade's emerging software-defined networking (SDN) strategy a big boost.
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