The Big Interview: GEICO VP, Infrastructure, Rebecca Weekly
As well as cloud and data repatration, GEICO is breaking dependence on a "proprietary, overpriced, custom MPLS cloud that created additional latency and lack of flexibility"
Insurance company, GEICO is sticking to its open-source guns with a sweeping infrastructure buildout, as it continues to repatriate many cloud workloads and massively modernise its entire network architecture.
A core focus is avoiding lock-in. An early lift-and-shift to public cloud saw the company saddled with a $300 million annual cloud bill.
The company has now populated two new data centres with Open Compute Project (OCP) hardware and open-source software, having sourced modular servers that are extensible base platforms for compute, storage, or networking across its growing number of ORV3 racks.