Why Traditional Data Platforms Fail at Scale - A Quantum Grade Rethink with Arcitecta | Episode #102
Great Things with Great Tech Podcast
Anthony Spiteri
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Your data platform is broken — and here’s the fix!
90% of enterprise storage systems collapse under ransomware and buckle at petabyte scale. In this episode, guide & CTO Jason Lohrey reveals how Mediaflux — built from first principles — rewrote the rules. Think hundreds of PB, real-time rollback, built-in malware defense, and unified management of both structured and unstructured data. This conversation blends cold physics with creative flair — and hits the frontier of data engineering.
In this episode, I talk to Jason Lohrey, Founder & CTO 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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| 0:00.0 | Most data platforms weren't built for the world we live in. |
| 0:03.0 | They bolt on metadata, struggle past petabart scale and fall apart under cyber attack. |
| 0:09.0 | Architecta says that's broken by design. |
| 0:11.0 | In this episode, I talked to Jason Laurie, CTO and founder, and also just quietly a quantum physicist |
| 0:18.0 | and the software sculptor behind MediaFlux. |
| 0:21.6 | To explore how rethinking data from the ground up might just be the only way forward. |
| 0:26.7 | So, what if your data platform could manage billions of files, scale to hundreds of |
| 0:31.6 | petabytes, defend against ransomware and more? |
| 0:34.6 | This is episode 102 of Great Things with Great Tech with Jason, Architector. |
| 0:43.2 | Hey Jason, welcome to episode 102 of Great Things with Great Tech. It's great to have you on and talk about |
| 0:53.2 | our techia and just talk about this company doing great things |
| 0:57.1 | and data, which probably people haven't really heard about, |
| 0:59.2 | but it's doing so well in the industry. |
| 1:01.3 | Before we get into what the company is and what they do |
| 1:04.8 | and everything that you've created over the past, |
| 1:07.8 | I guess, 20 to 25 years, let's get a bit of background yourself. You're a |
| 1:11.7 | quantum physics sort of guy, which always is intimidating. But give us a bit of your background. |
| 1:16.5 | You're from Melbourne, Australia. So great to have someone local. But again, welcome to the show |
| 1:20.8 | and let's hear about yourself. Thanks, Anthony. Great to be here. Yeah, I got my quantum |
| 1:27.3 | physics degree at the University of Tasmanian. |
| 1:29.3 | So I'm actually Tasmanian. |
| 1:31.3 | I moved to Melbourne. |
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