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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