IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and
a world leader in connected storage solutions, today announced that
its WD My Cloud® mobile apps have been downloaded more
than four million times[1], allowing users to remotely connect to
their My Cloud® personal
clouds to view photos, stream video and access their files from
anywhere on their smartphones or tablets. To make that experience
even better, WD today released WD My Cloud operating software (OS)
version 1.5, delivering new versions of the WD My Cloud device
firmware as well as the WD My Cloud mobile app. WD My Cloud OS 1.5
introduces new media navigation, viewing and search features. The
free upgrade is available on the full suite of My Cloud products including My Cloud, My Cloud
Mirror, My Cloud EX2 and My Cloud EX4.
"WD recognizes the overwhelming task that consumers face in
organizing and controlling all of the music, movies, photos and
other digital files we collect across our various computers and
mobile devices," said Jim Welsh,
executive vice president, WD Content Solutions Business and
worldwide sales. "The more than four million downloads of our WD My
Cloud app offerings to date show our software provides tremendous
value to our customers, and we are committed to continuing the
mission of WD My Cloud OS to simplify the digital chaos we all face
with the growing amount of digital content in our lives."
With the My Cloud family, users
have anywhere access to their favorite digital content by using
WD's award winning WD My Cloud mobile app for iOS® or
Android™ mobile devices. The WD My Cloud OS1.5 upgrade adds a
dynamic Media View feature to the mobile app, providing users with
a more engaging experience to view and search their photos, music
and video content. The WD My Cloud app also helps unify all of a
users' cloud storage under a single app and user interface,
allowing access to content on their personal cloud and on major
public cloud services such as Dropbox™, OneDrive™ and Google Drive™
from just one app.
The WD My Cloud OS 1.5 upgrade also includes an update to the WD
remote access servers that provide the authentication and access to
My Cloud devices to address the
BASH/Shellshock vulnerability.
Price and Availability
The WD My Cloud mobile app currently is available for download
for free from the App StoreSM and Google Play™ store.
My Cloud products are available at
select U.S. retailers and online at the wdstore.com.
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, Calif. 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.
Western Digital, WD, My Passport, My
Cloud, WD My Cloud and the WD logo are registered trademarks
of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. and other
countries. Android, Google Play and Google Drive are trademarks of
Google Inc. IOS is a trademark or registered trademark of Cisco in
the U.S. and other countries and is used under license by Apple
Inc. App Store is a service mark of Apple
Inc. Dropbox is a trademark of Dropbox Inc. All other brand
and product names mentioned herein are the property of their
respective companies.
As used for storage capacity, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion
bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible
capacity varies depending on operating environment.
[1] Total mobile app downloads include WD My Cloud, WD Photos
and WD2go mobile apps
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