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WD My Cloud Mobile App downloads reach more
than four million; New upgrade provides enhanced media Experience for My Cloud
customers
Dubai, UAE, November 5, 2014
– WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company
and a world leader in connected storage solutions, 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. The company also 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.
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 leading electronics retailers across
the Middle East and online at the wdstore.com.
“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.
