Recently, Zoom, the cloud video conferencing company has seen a huge surge in demand. The company has seen a huge leap from 10 million daily users to 300 million daily users in a matter of weeks.
To cater to increased demand, Zoom has chosen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to support its growth and evolving business needs as the enterprise video communications company continue to innovate and provide an essential service to its extensive customer base.
Talking about the collaboration, Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan said,
“We recently experienced the most significant growth our business has ever seen, requiring massive increases in our service capacity. We explored multiple platforms, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure was instrumental in helping us quickly scale our capacity and meet the needs of our new users, We chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure because of its industry-leading security, outstanding performance, and unmatched level of support.”
The deal is a big boost for Oracle
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Oracle is hoping to gain market share from the AWS and Azure. Oracle’s key selling points to the enterprise have been its autonomous features and advanced security. It declares that infrastructure and data protection requirements are managed autonomously.
Clay Magouyrk, an executive VP of engineering for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure said,
“We are in conversations with Zoom about ways in which they can take more and more advantage of Oracle technology. What I can tell you right now is that Zoom is very focused on currently meeting their massive business growth. So now is not the right time to create the plans, but that’s something that we will be working with them over the next few months.”
How Oracle-Zoom deal happened
About six weeks ago, Zoom started experiencing unusual usage growth because of the Coronavirus and the company reached out to see if Oracle could help meet some of their scaling demands.
Zoom had not been an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customer up until that point. So Oracle mobilized the team across the engineering organization and daily meetings were set up to deal with the remedy. Within a couple of days, Oracle had its application up and running on top of the infrastructure. Thereafter, within a week they were moving significant production loads.
Unprecedented scrutiny on Zoom’s security practices also contributed to the Deal
The surge in popularity also resulted in complaints about bandwidth and quality for Zoom. It also resulted in unprecedented scrutiny on the company’s security practices. Perhaps it is not surprising that the company sought out to Oracle to support its growth and its changing needs.
Zoom is sending more than seven petabytes through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure servers each day, roughly equivalent to 93 years of HD video. Oracle’s 2nd-generation cloud infrastructure, combined with expertise in security, will support Zoom in delivering an enterprise-ready video communications experience.