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Western Digital's New Cloud Endeavor - Acquires Upthere

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Julio Urquidi

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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.

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’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.
 

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