Summary: Zoom deployed on Oracle Cloud in order to accommodate rapidly growing cloud infrastructure requirements amid its explosive growth. The growth is scaling so fast that Zoom is seeing over 300m daily meeting participants. This is up from around 200m just last month. Zoom confirmed considering other cloud options, but cited security, performance and support levels as key selling points. Security may well have been something that helped Oracle in this deal, which has to be considered an upset. Zoom has suffered a series of security issues of late and would have wanted to go with a provider that it believed could deliver enterprise-grade security and rectify this shortcoming. Proving itself to the enterprise would also go a long way to helping it start breaking into even bigger market segments and opportunities. There may be also be a competitive angle as Google and Microsoft, in particular, have directly competitive services. And who knows, maybe Oracle would have not just offered a good deal (to get a big logo win with street credibility), but perhaps might even be positioning to acquire it (recognizing that Zoom might well already be just too expensive). Zoom already uses AWS and Azure, along with colocation, but not a lot of details have emerged as to how this infrastructure is distributed. There were few details about the size of deployment, but to provide some perspective, Oracle claims Zoom is transferring over seven PB of data through its cloud servers in a single day. Given how Zoom emphasized the rapid scalability of Oracle’s cloud platform and the time-to-market, it sounds like it is positioning to be a primary cloud option. No doubt we are going to be hearing a lot about Oracle’s new cloud poster boy and Oracle Cloud demand for data centre capacity could see an uptick.
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