{"id":226613,"date":"2017-08-29T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T06:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=226613"},"modified":"2017-08-29T08:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T06:26:54","slug":"western-digital-purchases-cloud-storage-company-upthere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/226613-western-digital-purchases-cloud-storage-company-upthere.html","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital purchases cloud storage company Upthere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western Digital has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20170828005963\/en\/Western-Digital-Announces-Acquisition-Upthere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>purchased cloud services provider Upthere<\/strong><\/a> for an undisclosed amount.<\/p>\n<p>Upthere provides consumer cloud storage, with support for multiple operating systems &#8211; including iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.<\/p>\n<p>The cloud storage company previously raised $77 million in funding from prominent investors, including Western Digital Ventures and KPCB.<\/p>\n<p>Western Digital&#8217;s Cloud Services business will be headed up by ex-IronKey vice president Barbara Nelson, while Upthere CEO Chris Bourdon will join the Western Digital team as a strategic leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am confident that, together, we will continue to innovate cloud-based services with the potential to revolutionise how consumers and businesses create, manage, and keep their important data,&#8221; said Bourdon.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/219512-google-drive-offers-a-backup-of-your-entire-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Drive offers a backup of your entire PC<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Digital has purchased cloud services provider Upthere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":226615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2882,45635,2118],"class_list":["post-226613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-cloud-storage","tag-upthere","tag-western-digital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226621,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226613\/revisions\/226621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}