Cloud-storage company Nirvanix has appointed Debra Chrapaty, Zynga's former CIO, to lead the company as CEO.

Chrapaty, who has been executive chairwoman of its board since November, will officially take the helm at Nirvanix in April. The company's current CEO Dru Borden will stay on the team, switching to the position of senior VP of planning and development.

Commenting on her new role, Chrapaty said she believed there was room for innovation in the enterprise-storage market. “Nirvanix is already ahead of the game and differentiating services and gaining traction against some of the storage goliaths,” she said.

“Having built and run some of the industry’s 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.”

At Zynga, the online-gaming company that produced popular games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, Chrapaty oversaw infrastructure design and technical and support operations. Zynga has recently been going through restructuring, laying off staff and consolidating offices, as its stock has shown lackluster performance since an initial public offering (IPO) in December 2011.

Prior to Zynga, Chrapaty was senior VP of Cisco's Collaboration Software Group. Before that, she was at Microsoft, in the role of corporate VP.

David Weiden, a Nirvanix board member, said he had worked with her for years and “she is the dream executive to lead Nirvanix.”

Nirvanix has been expanding the geographic scope of its storage cloud for enterprises aggressively through deals with major data center providers, including CoreSite, Switch SuperNAP, CyrusOne and Equinix. It has also entered strategic partnerships with major technology vendors, including IBM, Dell and VMware.

In May 2012, the company raised US$25m in series-C funding round. The funding deal, led by Khosla Ventures and joined by Intel Capital and three other venture-capital players, brought the total amount of money Nirvanix had raised to $70m.