Most data platforms were never meant to scale. They can’t handle petabytes, they aren’t cyber resilient, and they treat metadata like an afterthought. Arcitecta calls that broken — and they’ve built something fundamentally different.

In this episode, I talk to Jason Lohrey, Founder & CEO of Arcitecta, and the quantum physicist behind Mediaflux — a first-principles data platform that manages structured + unstructured data, scales to hundreds of PBs, and delivers real-time ransomware rollback.

We dive into:

• The story of deleting 80,000 words — and what it sparked

• Why backup can't keep up with scale

• Data as energy, and the physical limits of storage

• Why Mediaflux was built from scratch — database, protocols, and all

• Where quantum computing might take us (and what it threatens)

Arcitecta was founded in 1998, based in Melbourne, Australia.☑️ Support the Channel by buying a coffee? - https://ko-fi.com/gtwgt☑️ Technology and Topics Mentioned:Mediaflux, XODB, NFS, SMB, SFTP, DICOM, S3, Real-Time File Streaming, Data Orchestration, Structured & Unstructured Data, Cyber Resilience, Ransomware Rollback, Metadata-Driven File Systems, Backup at Petabyte Scale, Data Gravity, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Multi-Protocol Access, Time-Series Data, First Principles Engineering, Innovation in Storage, Glass & DNA Storage, Distributed File Systems

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