Last month The Stack published a short interview with Rebecca Weekly. the VP for Infrastructure at GEICO, a $40 billion by revenue Berkshire Hathaway-owned automotive insurance company. GEICO is building a large private cloud environment on Open Compute Project (OCP) hardware and repatriating many workloads from its multiple public cloud providers.
The interview generated a lot of interest and plenty of questions in The Stack’s inbox. Shortly after we published, GEICO presented at the OCP’s Global Summit in San Jose, sharing more details on the move and its focus on open hardware and open software. We decided to follow up. Whilst GEICO was not immediately able to answer some of our questions, its presentation at the summit showcased important lessons. We dug in.
80% of workloads were in the cloud
As the $40 billion revenue insurer’s Head of Hardware and Storage Engineering, Sahid Jaffa explained, by 2021, Geico had a presence in eight different cloud providers, with 80% of its workloads on the public cloud.
As he put it: “We were consuming over 200,000 cores of compute on a single CSP, powering over 30,000 instances of containers and [VMs].
