Oracle announced Tuesday that the creators of the immensely successful Zoom videoconferencing service, Zoom Video Communications, have chosen Oracle as a key provider of cloud infrastructures.
About six weeks ago, the companies started working together to deploy Zoom’s core meeting service on Oracle’s infrastructure. Zoom is still dependent on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as a multi-cloud operation for various computing requirements.
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said in a press release. He said that the company has been testing several platforms before selecting Oracle Cloud infrastructure.
It would be an understatement to say Zoom is experiencing red-hot production. The pandemic forced millions of people to get shelter from home and work. Hence, it has become an effective resource to stay connected. In fact, 10 million peak daily users at the end of December.
As of last week, that’s risen to over 300 million. Zoom said Oracle’s cloud has been able to accommodate hundreds of thousands of Zoom meeting participants simultaneously within hours of deployment. Since it has increased, allowing millions of conference participants at the same time. Going forward, it will rely on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to ensure a quality experience for those meeting participants.
According to The Motley Fool, “We’ve recently undergone the most dramatic growth our company has ever seen, requiring major improvements in our service capacity. We’ve been testing several platforms. Oracle Cloud Technology has been instrumental in helping us extend our reach rapidly. And also, it fulfills our new users’ needs,” Yuan said.
Oracle does not reveal the scale of the contract. But, the company seizes the opportunity to venture the cloud technology of the next decade. It said Zoom is currently transmitting over seven petabytes every day via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Servers, roughly equivalent to 93 years of HD video.