IRVINE, Calif., May 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- WD®,
a Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) company, and a world leader in
storage solutions is expanding its apps offerings by introducing
Plex®, an entertainment app that can now be downloaded to and
deployed on the My Cloud® NAS series. Plex organizes video, music
and photos from personal media libraries and streams them to smart
TVs, streaming boxes and mobile devices.
"WD is committed to a robust application ecosystem for our
customers and Plex is a key example of our vision," said
Sven Rathjen, vice president &
general manager, WD networked content solutions. "With today's
addition of the Plex app, the My Cloud NAS series will now be a
one-stop shop to not only store and protect your most precious
content, but to organize and stream that content to all your
devices as well."
Features
WD is committed to furthering its apps capabilities on its
My Cloud product line up. The series
of products will now be equipped with an array of Plex features,
including:
- Stream supported file formats directly from your personal
My Cloud (models: My Cloud Mirror,
My Cloud EX2/EX4, My Cloud EX2100/EX4100 and My Cloud DL2100/4100) to any Plex app
- World class DLNA support built right in to the app
- Effortlessly sharing media amongst family and friends
- One simple interface to organize all of your media
For updates on the continued expansion of app offerings on the
My Cloud family of products, visit
www.wd.com.
About Plex
Plex organizes all of your video, movie, TV show, music, and
photo collections so you can stream them to all of your screens.
Plex allows you to stream your media to your devices, such as your
Mac, PC, smartphone, tablet, Xbox, PlayStation, Smart TV, Roku,
Chromecast, and soon TiVo. Whether it's your movie and TV
collection, or your music library, Plex makes your media beautiful
by automatically adding movie posters, plot summaries, cover art,
and descriptions. Plex also allows you to share your home video,
photo, music, and movie collections with your friends and
family. For more information, visit https://plex.tv, or
follow at @plexapp on Twitter
or https://www.facebook.com/plexapp.
About WD
WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and
storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the
company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and
solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and
integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing
systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as
well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD's
leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media
players and software solutions empower people around the world to
easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on
multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered
in Irvine, California. For more
information, please visit the company's website at www.wd.com.
Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), Irvine, Calif., is a global provider of
products and services that empower people to create, manage,
experience and preserve digital content. Its companies design and
manufacture storage devices, networking equipment and home
entertainment products under the WD, HGST and G-Technology brands.
Visit the Investor section of the company's website
(www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and
investor information.
External storage devices are part of a user's data backup
ecosystem. WD recommends users maintain multiple copies of their
most important data on different online and offline
platforms.
Apps, services, and other features are subject to change
based on your location, software version, device model, and third
party service providers.
As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one
trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on
operating environment.
Western Digital, WD, My Cloud,
and the WD logo are registered trademarks of Western Digital
Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. Plex is a
registered trademark of Plex, Inc. All other brand and product
names mentioned herein are the property of their respective
companies.
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