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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"

Edward Targett
By  Edward Targett
Updated / Published 6 min read
The Big Interview: GEICO VP, Infrastructure, Rebecca Weekly

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.

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  • Edward Targett

    Edward Targett

    Ed is a co-founder of The Stack. He previously edited Computer Business Review. He has also covered energy markets. He started his journalism career on local papers. He left school at 15 and has made a living asking "but why?" ever since.