<p>Cloud storage services provider Nirvanix recently appointed former Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty as CEO. Chrapaty will also remain executive chairwoman of the company's board, an appointment made in November 2012. Her appointment as CEO will be effective in April.</p><p>Chrapaty previously worked as Zynga's CIO, where she oversaw the company's infrastructure design and technical and support operations. Before working at the gaming developer, Chrapaty worked as the senior vice president of Cisco Systems' (NASDAQ: CSCO) Collaboration Software Group, overseeing the design and development of Cisco's collaboration services. She has also worked at Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) as a corporate vice president and was president and COO of E*TRADE Technologies.</p><p>Chrapaty said in an email that the company plans to leverage the growing cloud market by building on partner relationships, adding new services to its cloud offerings and augmenting the company's cloud infrastruture and software stack.</p><p>"While lots of companies are embracing the gains of jumping on the public cloud infrastructure, Fortune 1000 enterprises have a tougher set of security, compliance and business hurdles, which is why at Nirvanix we are focused on flexible deployment models in public, private and hybrid scenarios," she added.</p><p><a href="http://talkincloud.com/cloud-companies/nirvanix-appoints-former-zynga-cio-ceo">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57576293-93/zynga-losing-another-executive/">Zynga losing another executive</a> (CNET)</p><p><a href="http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/focus/archive/2013/03/zynga-cio-chrapaty-leaves-head-nirvanix">Zynga CIO Chrapaty leaves to head Nirvanix</a> (DatacenterDynamics)</p><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/2013/03/25/zynga-cio-chrapaty-jumps-ship-becomes-cloud-storage-ceo/">Zynga CIO Chrapaty jumps ship, becomes cloud-storage CEO</a> (GigaOM)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dE062BAQSRcLkGM7pTW-aaRKRG3bM&ned=us">19 additional articles.</a></p>