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Nirvanix Steals Away Zynga CIO

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San Diego-based Nirvanix , the cloud storage service operator, has snagged the current CIO of Zynga as its new CEO, according to the company Monday. Debra Chrapaty, who formerly was CIO of Zynga, also served at Cisco as SVP of its Collaboration Software Group, in addition to working at Microsoft and E*TRADE Technologies.

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Leads360 Links With Mortgage Software Firm

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Los Angeles-based Leads360 reported today that it has linked its sales lead management software with offerings from web-based mortgage software firm Optimal Blue. Leads360 is backed by Rustic Canyon Partners, and is headed by Dan Morefield, who was CIO of Overture Services before its acquisition by Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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CrowdStrike Sets New CIO

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Irvine-based security software developer CrowdStrike announced this morning that it has named Colin Black as its new Chief Information Officer. Black was previously CIO of Kratos Defense and Security, and also had served at Cymer and Mindspeed Technologies. CrowdStrike said Black will focus on infrastructure expansion of its platform.

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Leads360 Wins Automobile Insurance Firm

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Los Angeles-based Leads360 , a developer of hosted software for managing sales leads, reported yesterday that the firm has signed on Infinity Auto Insurance, a unit of Infinity Property and Casualty Group. According to Leads360, Infinity's independent agents will have access to its lead management software and services at a reduced price.

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iRise Names Advisor

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El Segundo-based iRise , a developer of software used by enterprises to visualize and prototype their IT development projects, announced this morning that it has named Ralph Szygenda to its advisory board. Szygenda is the former global CIO of General Motors, and also has served at Bell Atlantic and Texas Instruments. READ MORE>>.

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BuyAutoParts.com Names CIO

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Crisan joins from AutoAnything, where he was VP of Software Engineering. San Diego-based BuyAutoParts.com , an online e-commerce site focused on auto parts, said Thursday that it has named Adrian Crisan as the company''s Chief Information Officer. Crisan also has served at Sony Electronics and HP/Compaq. READ MORE>>.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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We have the best engineers in the world here at MetaCloud, the former cloud engineering team at Ticketmaster, which operates your cloud every day, deploys software updates, and gives you the economic performance of the cloud, but where you data is always under control and on your premises. Sean Lynch: I think they''re hunting for efficiency.

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