Western Digital's New Cloud Endeavor - Acquires Upthere

[Julio Urquidi]

Western Digital had a busy week. Aside from acquiring enterprise storage vendor Tegile, WD is also bolstering its consumer branch with the purchase of Upthere, for an undisclosed amount.

The company is a six-year old cloud storage company and enhances Western Digital’s presence in the competitive online storage market.

Upthere adds a one-stop shop for those looking for personal cloud storage solutions spanning across iOS, MacOS, Android and Windows platforms.

Upthere’s CEO, Chris Bourdon, will be joining WD’s leadership team. Barbara Nelson, formerly of IronKey, will be overseeing Western Digital’s Cloud Services division.