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Western Digital Pulls Plug On Cloud Storage Service

By David Richards| 2 Dec 2015

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Western Digital Pulls Plug On Cloud Storage Service


	In an email sent to customers today the Company who recently acquired SanDisk, said that the service will be shut down in March 2016. Customers who had a monthly or annual subscription to Western Digital’s MioNet Service have been told that they will have to look for a new service. The Company said that they have not been accepting monthly subscriptions for the MioNet Service since March 2015. “The MioNet Service, however, will continue to be available free of charge to month-to-month subscribers until March 31, 2016, at which time the MioNet Service will be discontinued” the email said. MioNet Customers with Annual Subscriptions Western Digital said that they will help their customer to migrate off the MioNet Service to an alternative solution such as My Cloud. Access to a Western Digital device can be obtained by using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) as an alternative to the Mionet Service.

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David Richards has been writing about technology for more than 30 years. A former Fleet Street journalist, he wrote the Award Winning Series on the Federated Ships Painters + Dockers Union for the Bulletin that led to a Royal Commission. He is also a Logie Winner for Outstanding Contribution To TV Journalism with a story called The Werribee Affair. In 1997, he built the largest Australian technology media company and prior to that the third largest PR company that became the foundation company for Ogilvy PR. Today he writes about technology and the impact on both business and consumers.