<p>Debra Chrapaty, a former executive at Cisco Microsoft, and E*Trade, will leave her CIO post at Zynga next month to become CEO of enterprise cloud-storage vendor Nirvanix.</p><p>Chrapaty's move isn't a complete surprise, given that (a) cloud storage is hot, (b) Zynga is not and (c) Chrapaty has served as Nirvanix's executive board chairwoman since November.</p><p>Chrapaty has the infrastructure chops to lead a company keen on expanding clouds. At Zynga, she oversaw the company's switch from Amazon Web Services to its own specialized cloud. Earlier, she was in charge as Microsoft expanded its data center footprint. She has also been president and chief operating officer of E*Trade and senior vice president of the Collaboration Software Group at Cisco.</p><p>Based in San Diego, Nirvanix has racked up more than 1,200 customers and $70 million in venture funding. Backers include Khosla Ventures and Intel Capital. Peddling as it does public, private and hybrid clouds and cloud gateways for enterprises, it sees competitors in many directions, including Amazon and Microsoft on the public front, Dropbox and Box in the smaller-business area, and EMC and NetApp on the legacy-vendor stage.</p><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/03/25/zynga-cio-chrapaty-jumps-ship-becomes-cloud-storage-ceo/">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zynga-cio-leaves-to-run-enterprise-cloud-storage-company-nirvanix-7000013103/">Zynga CIO leaves to run enterprise cloud storage company Nirvanix</a> (ZDNet)</p><p><a href="http://www.pehub.com/192941/zynga-cio-off-nirvanix-becoming-its-fifth-ceo-six-years/">Zynga CIO is Off to Nirvanix, Becoming Its Fifth CEO in Six Years</a> (Private Equity Hub (press release))</p><p><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130325/longtime-tech-exec-debra-chrapaty-joins-nirvanix-as-ceo/?refcat=news">Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty Joins Nirvanix as CEO</a> (All Things Digital)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dSV97kFwBhVfrGMNWzC3WzOjr4VQM&ned=us">11 additional articles.</a></p>