{"id":648766,"date":"2013-03-25T17:35:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T21:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/?p=94300"},"modified":"2013-03-25T17:35:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T21:35:17","slug":"debra-chrapaty-departs-zynga-to-head-nirvanix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648766","title":{"rendered":"Debra Chrapaty Departs Zynga to Head Nirvanix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debra Chrapaty, who has served in infrastructure leadership positions for some of the Internet&#8217;s largest players, is now calling the shots for a cloud service provider. Chrapaty is departing <strong>Zynga<\/strong>, where she had been CIO, to become the chief executive officer at enterprise cloud storage specialist <strong>Nirvanix<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Chrapaty&#8217;s tenure at Zynga spanned the company&#8217;s effort to shift away from a heavy dependence upon cloud services, moving much of the gaming company&#8217;s infrastructure to in-house data centers. Her experience prior to Zynga included a stint as VP of Global Foundation Services for Microsoft . She also served as Senior VP of the software collaboration group at Cisco Systems and COO of E-TRADE Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Nirvanix provides cloud storage services focused on enterprises with massive amounts of large unstructured content files, and offers usage-based pricing across public, hybrid and private cloud storage deployments. Last year the company raised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2012\/05\/03\/nirvanix-raises-25-million-for-cloud-storage\/\">$25 million<\/a> from backers including Khosla Ventures, Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures and Windward Ventures.\u00a0Customers include Cerner Corporation, IBM, USC Digital Repository, National Geographic and Relativity Media.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">&#8220;I believe there is room for innovation in the enterprise storage market,&#8221; said Chrapaty. &#8220;Nirvanix is already ahead of the game and differentiating services and gaining traction against some of the storage goliaths. Having built and run some of the industry\u2019s largest cloud environments, I know the importance of secure, available, cost efficient infrastructure and storage. Now we have the chance to build a truly differentiated cloud offering and pass that value on to our enterprise customers. That&#8217;s exciting for me and, more important, for the\u00a0industry.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debra Chrapaty, who has served in infrastructure leadership positions for some of the Internet&#8217;s largest players, is now calling the shots for a cloud service provider. Chrapaty is departing Zynga, where she had been CIO, to become the chief executive officer at enterprise cloud storage specialist Nirvanix. Chrapaty&#8217;s tenure at Zynga spanned the company&#8217;s effort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}