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Why 8x8 moved to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

August 2020

If you ask Vik Verma, we’re living in the golden age of communications. An affable, charismatic speaker, Verma’s relaxed style is fitting for the CEO of 8x8.

But it belies the pressure of an expensive decision he made near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic: to offer videoconferencing for free around the world. In a wide-ranging interview with me, Verma describes

Suddenly serving 20 million users a day
The open source, Java-basedjitsi.org that underpins 8x8’s free meetings
What Emil Ivov, founder of Jitsi, thinks app developers can no longer assume
How working from home is changing Silicon Valley
Why 8x8 migrated workloads from AWS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Is remote work affecting you? Write me.

—Alexandra Weber Morales, Oracle Director of Developer Content

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