Zoom has teamed up with Oracle to support a "sudden spike" in video calls during the coronavirus crisis.
Zoom said Tuesday that Oracle's cloud platform quickly began supporting "hundreds of thousands of concurrent Zoom meeting participants," and that the surge in demand has reached 300 million call participants daily.
The partnership underscores the rapid rise of Zoom as a video conferencing platform during the pandemic which led to the sudden rise of the remote workforce. For Oracle, teaming up with Zoom is a big boost to its cloud business which competes with market leaders Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
"We chose Oracle Cloud Infrastructure because of its industry-leading security, outstanding performance, and unmatched level of support," Zoom CEO Eric Yuan said in a statement.
Yuan had previously cited both Oracle and Amazon as helping it quickly expand its capacity by proactively offering discounts.
Oracle CEO Safra Catz cited the transformation of video communications as "an essential part of our professional and personal lives," saying in a statement, "Zoom has led this industry's innovation."
Oracle founder Larry Ellison recently posted a video praising the way Zoom has helped businesses during the crisis.
He said Zoom has "allowed us to continue doing engineering, continue to do customer support, continue to do sales even though we're still working at home."
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