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Arcitecta today announced it will demonstrate its Mediaflux® DAMS digital asset management system for the research industry at eResearch Australasia, October 26-30, 2026, in Melbourne, Australia at Booth 04-CE. Arcitecta will be co-located with its strategic partners Spectra Logic and DDN, showcasing world-class research data management architectures.

Mediaflux DAMS is a powerful digital asset management solution designed for institutions managing complex, large-scale datasets and high-throughput data workflows. It provides an intuitive, fully customizable interface for storing, describing and accessing digital assets at scale, powered by extensible and actionable metadata.

Arcitecta will also showcase Mediaflux® Connect 365, an active data management solution for universities facing the Microsoft 365 Education storage policy changes. Built on the Arcitecta Mediaflux platform, it provides a single system for managing, cataloging and governing billions of files and petabytes of data of any type across any storage mix.

Research Data Management (RDM) Community of Practice Workshop

On Friday, October 30, 2026, Arcitecta is hosting an event for the Australian RDM community at the University of Melbourne. Rising storage costs and increasingly complex, petabyte-scale research environments are driving the need for more effective data management strategies. The event will provide a forum for RDM professionals and technology designers to exchange knowledge, share best practices and explore collaborative approaches to managing research data at scale.

Presentations will encapsulate the University of Melbourne Research Computing Services’ lessons learned from institutional research data management transformation and recent large-scale data migration and the University of New South Wales’ RDM architecture overhaul and roadmap. Extended conversations and Q&A sessions will also delve into the TigerData RDM undertaking at Princeton University and the fundamental question of how to measure data.

The Mediaflux user group session will follow the Community of Practice conversations, further strengthening community connections and fostering ongoing collaboration around the challenges and opportunities of research data management.

If you are interested in participating in these events or meeting with Arcitecta at the show, email talk@arcitecta.com.

Resources

• More on Mediaflux DAMS
• More on Mediaflux Connect 365
• More on research data management: Research Data Management Futureproofing
• More on Mediaflux, a Data Management Platform

Arcitecta today announced Mediaflux^® Connect 365, a solution that brings active data management to Microsoft® OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams, to help universities and research institutions optimize long-term data management while keeping data instantly accessible, searchable and governed.

Microsoft is transitioning Microsoft 365 Education from its previous unlimited cloud storage model to a free but limited pooled storage model (capped at 100 terabytes per tenant plus 50-100 gigabytes per licensed user) as universities renew their Microsoft 365 licensing agreements. For institutions that have relied on unlimited storage, the change will necessitate increased storage costs, significant data reduction or migration to lower-cost storage options. Institutions managing hundreds of terabytes or multiple petabytes of data could face additional costs of approximately USD $360,000 per petabyte per year.

Active Data Management for Microsoft 365 OneDrive and SharePoint Data

Arcitecta’s Mediaflux Connect 365 empowers universities to quickly identify and categorize the data within their Microsoft environment, enabling institutions to meet fast-approaching data migration deadlines and to start the often lengthy Microsoft-controlled egress process.

Key benefits of Mediaflux Connect 365 include:

• Data analysis. Identifies the data residing in Microsoft 365 storage to help institutions determine what data they want to retain there, move or be deleted. Uses data analytics to identify what data must be moved and migrated into on-premises, cloud or hybrid storage.
• Reduced storage costs. Organizations can avoid the significant cost increases associated with the new Microsoft 365 Education storage limitations and commercial pricing changes.

• Improved governance under active data management. All institutional data can be managed from a single pane of glass, including from Microsoft’s OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams, providing simplified data management and visibility across storage types and locations. Today these data repositories are unmanaged, making it difficult to understand what data is stored, identify sensitive information, such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), or verify backup policies.

• Powerful metadata support. Rich, searchable metadata makes data genuinely manageable at scale, not just archived out of sight. Metadataenables data users to find what they need when they need it, understand and identify what data they have, and provide details such as how and where the data was generated.
• Flexible storage options. Maintains choice and control through flexible, vendor-neutral storage options, including on-premises (flash, object and tape) and any cloud storage.

Worldwide Ecosystem Expansion

Arcitecta is expanding its ecosystem of technology partners to help universities worldwide respond to Microsoft’s new storage requirements. By combining any storage with Mediaflux’s active data management capabilities, institutions can reduce costs and optimize Microsoft 365 storage while meeting local requirements for data sovereignty, governance and long-term stewardship.

Availability

Arcitecta’s Mediaflux Connect 365 solution is available immediately. For more information, please reach out to an Arcitecta team member at talk@arcitecta.com.

Resources

• More on Mediaflux Connect 365
• More on Research Data Management Futureproofing
• More on the Mediaflux data management platform

Arcitecta today announced that it will demonstrate its advanced Mediaflux® research data management platform integrated with GRAU DATA’s Metadata-Hub and XtreemStore, and COMBACK’s BDT ORION enterprise tape infrastructure at ISC 2026, June 22-26, 2026, in Hamburg, Germany, in Booth D39.

Arcitecta, GRAU DATA and COMBACK connect active data management, metadata-driven archive, and enterprise tape infrastructure into a single, scalable architecture. This combined solution helps organizations manage, preserve and extract value from massive datasets across active and archive storage tiers.

Key benefits of the combined Arcitecta, GRAU DATA and COMBACK solution include:
 

• Manage large-scale datasets across active and archive environments
• Maintain visibility and accessibility across the data lifecycle
• Automate policy-driven data movement and retention
• Reduce long-term storage cost and energy consumption
• Scale sustainable archive infrastructure for petabyte- and exabyte-scale environments

“Data has become the foundation of AI, research discovery and high-performance computing, yet many organizations struggle to manage and capitalize on the massive volumes of unstructured data they generate and maintain,” said Jason Lohrey, CEO and founder of Arcitecta. “Together with GRAU DATA and COMBACK, we’re helping customers unlock the maximum value of their data through a modern approach that simplifies data management, improves preservation and accessibility, and accelerates insights. We look forward to demonstrating how these capabilities are enabling the next generation of AI and research breakthroughs.”
 

For more information, visit: https://www.arcitecta.com/events/2026/isc/.

To schedule a meeting at ISC 2026, visit: https://www.arcitecta.com/events/2026/isc/#meeting.

Resources

• More on the Arcitecta, GRAU DATA and COMBACK integrated solution
• Press Release: Arcitecta Expands European Leadership Team
• More on research data management: Research Data Management Futureproofing
• More on Mediaflux, a Data Management Platform

Arcitecta today announced that it will demonstrate its advanced Mediaflux® research data management platform in booth #14 at Supercomputing Asia 2026, January 26-29, at the Osaka International Convention Center in Japan. The conference will be held in conjunction with HPC Asia 2026 (SCA/HPCAsia 2026).

Arcitecta is returning to Supercomputing Asia 2026 to share its vision for elegant, intelligent research data management. At a time when data is growing in volume, complexity, and value, Arcitecta’s Mediaflux platform brings balance to the research ecosystem, connecting people, instruments, storage and compute into a unified, metadata-rich environment. Built for HPC-scale workloads and diverse, data-intensive disciplines, Mediaflux transforms data into a living, dynamic resource that accelerates discovery.

Birds of a Feather Session: Managing and Sharing Large Scientific Data Sets

Arcitecta’s Global Business Development Lead, Robert Mollard, will join other distinguished panelists in an informative session to discuss the complexities of sharing large amounts of collected scientific data and to explore sharing techniques, models and software tools that address this challenge. Attendees will gain an understanding of contemporary practices and actionable methods for improving collaboration between research organizations with large data stores used for analysis and with HPC workflows and software.

Topic: Managing and Sharing Large Scientific Data Sets

Date and Time: Thursday, January 29, 2026, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Location: 12F Conference Hall of the Osaka International Convention Center

Panelists:

• Robert Mollard, Arcitecta – Global Business Development Lead
• Bronis R. de Supinski, CTO for Livermore Computing (LC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
• Michael Hennecke, Distinguished Technologist at HPE – DAOS Systems/Software Engineering
• Chris Maestas, IBM – CTO for Data and AI Storage Solutions
• Matt Starr, Spectra Logic – CTO, VP APJ Sales, and VP Federal Sales
• Thomas Metzger, Americas HPC Technical and Business Director at Intel Corporation
• Werner Scholz, Xenon Systems – CTO and Head of R&D
• CJ Newburn, NVIDIA Architect – IO and HPC Software Strategy
• Jake Carroll, Director, Research Computing Centre – University of Queensland

The New Digital Preservation

Long-term data retention was once treated as a niche concern, limited to archives and specialized domains. Today, research data is routinely retained for decades, often by default rather than by design. This shift is reshaping how institutions think about storage, lifecycle management, cost, and sustainability.

Digital preservation is no longer a “future” problem; it is a challenge that organizations must begin addressing now. Mediaflux delivers intelligent, policy-driven data placement across the entire storage hierarchy, from high-performance hot tiers to economical long-term archives.

Cerabyte, the pioneer of ceramic-based data storage solutions, will join Arcitecta in booth #14 to jointly demonstrate how the two companies address the need for data management in conjunction with long-term retention, enabling data storage that is easily accessible, permanent, sustainable and energy-efficient.

To schedule a meeting with the Arcitecta team at SCA/HPCAsia 2026, visit: https://www.arcitecta.com/events/2026/sca/chat/

Here’s a look at some of the top 2026 predictions from Arcitecta via Eric Polet, Director of Product Marketing at Arcitecta. These predictions cover how data architecture, storage strategy, security, and long-term scientific stewardship will transform in the year ahead. 

• An AI-ready data infrastructure will be essential to optimizing AI model training and inference.
  The real AI leaders won’t be those with the biggest models, but those with the most unified, AI-ready data fabrics. Integrated platforms will replace fragmented data stacks, offering built-in vector database support, unified metadata, and pipeline orchestration that can move quickly, adapt to new models, and scale insights across the enterprise. This approach will provide a faster route to turning AI into value and will future-proof data infrastructures. Data readiness is AI readiness.
• Long-term storage at scale will become unsustainable, requiring thoughtful data deletion.
  The next decade of data management will be defined by data sustainability. Organizations will increasingly treat storage growth as an environmental liability, not just a cost center, and will demand tools that assess the energy footprint embedded in every byte. New storage technologies, such as glass, DNA, ceramic, etc., will help, but the real gains will come from smarter curation, not ever-expanding capacity. Institutions that succeed will strike a balance between retention and restraint, ensuring that their data footprint is not only useful but also sustainable. Sustainable storage doesn’t mean deleting everything. It means knowing what can be deleted and building policies and lifecycles around that knowledge.
  
• Backup will no longer be just about compliance or disaster recovery.
  With enterprise datasets routinely exceeding 10, 50, even 100 petabytes, businesses must focus on preserving operational and business continuity. Modern approaches are limited by how fast they can scan, how often they can run, and how efficiently they can target only what matters. Instead, organizations will need to continuously evaluate data based on origin, usage, modification frequency, ownership, sensitivity, and time, and then selectively protect what’s critical. Traditional backup still has a place, however, for large-scale, high-value, and rapidly changing data, protection must reside within the data flow itself.
• Active archives will play a central role in ensuring high-value datasets remain instantly accessible.
  Organizations will increasingly adopt a combination of active archives, intelligent tiering, and hybrid cloud architectures to optimize storage utilization at scale. Tiering is necessary to group large datasets and assign them levels of importance and priority. An active archive serves this purpose well, as it allows data to be relegated to a lower tier while still being available rapidly should it be needed by the AI engine. Organizations that fail to modernize their storage strategies will risk higher costs, slower AI deployment, and diminished competitiveness in an increasingly data-driven world.
• Data-intensive science and collaboration will drive the need for scalable research data platforms.
  As research data grows exponentially in volume, variety, and velocity, traditional management practices that are heavily dependent on ad hoc, dispersed individual and departmental efforts are failing catastrophically. Institutions will need to fundamentally rethink long-term data management strategies to keep pace with this surge and ensure data remains accessible. Organizations that are proactive in their approach will accelerate discovery and innovation.
• Data security and governance will become an ethical imperative.
  An organization’s credibility now depends as much on the integrity of its data infrastructure as on the integrity of its findings. In this high-stakes environment, immutability, traceability, and governance aren’t just operational necessities; they’re ethical imperatives. Metadata-driven systems are becoming a crucial operating backbone, automating access, retention, and policy enforcement while enabling secure collaboration across global locations. Organizations that thrive will be those that design for resilience, building zero-trust, metadata-rich, immutable data environments that protect both integrity and reputation.

Arcitecta will participate at SC25 in St. Louis, Missouri, November 16-21, featuring a visually immersive booth where research, creativity and computation converge. 

Arcitecta Co-LAB: Future Thinking, Where Research Meets Imagination

Arcitecta Co-LAB will feature partners and collaborators, including Cerabyte, Princeton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Whitehead Institute, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and others, to explore the evolving relationships between data, infrastructure and discovery, moving from principles to practice and from technology to meaningful adoption. The lab will offer a unique opportunity for conversation, collaboration and creative provocation of ideas from data sovereignty and ethics to the future of big data resilience. 

• Date and Time: November 18-20, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 
• Location: SC25, Arcitecta Booth #1439 

Special Presentation for Students@SC: Tomorrow’s breakthroughs depend on today’s thinkers

Students and recent graduates in high performance computing or science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) with curiosity and a passion for big data, distributed systems or digital creativity, are invited to attend Arcitecta’s CEO and Founder, Jason Lohrey’s talk on The Art of Software Construction, addressing the challenges that define the future of computing, how the company is building a collaborative space of both technologists and artists, the importance of being a maker and how Arcitecta’s team of makers is creating every aspect of its technology from the application platform, database, file systems, new features and more.

Visit Arcitecta’s Student Portal for details. 

• Date and Time: November 18-20, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 
• The Art of Software Construction talk: November 20, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. 
• Location: SC25, Arcitecta Booth #1439 

Mediaflux User Group Meeting

Arcitecta’s Mediaflux User Group session will bring customers together to share ideas and best practices for keeping pace with rapid data growth and to learn about the State of the Market and the future evolution of Mediaflux, exploring trends in high-performance computing (HPC) and what is next on the Mediaflux roadmap. Customers will also see the new Mediaflux digital asset management system (DAMS) in action and get a first look at Arcitecta’s Python Module. Integrating Mediaflux with the Python analytics ecosystem enables organizations to directly tap into the world’s most widely used data science platform while maintaining Mediaflux as their trusted data foundation. This connection empowers teams to turn managed data into actionable intelligence faster, using familiar tools such as Jupyter Notebook, Dash and Pyro. 

• Date and Time: Monday, November 17, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 
• Location: 21c Museum Hotel, 1528 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri 

Mediaflux Product Spotlight

Arcitecta will showcase its flagship product, Mediaflux, throughout its immersive booth experience. Mediaflux offers an advanced, comprehensive data management platform that can operate on a massive scale to help organizations better manage their data throughout its lifecycle. Its suite of solutions enables organizations to organize, search, share and preserve their data well into the future for lasting value. 

The platform delivers an AI-ready data fabric that supports all forms of data and AI models and provides a built-in vector database within its high-performance XODB® database. These innovative enhancements, announced in August, enable Mediaflux to power AI workflows by making multiple types of data AI-ready through unified metadata and vector embeddings. With the new vector support, users can leverage their entire data environment for AI training, significantly boosting model quality and accelerating advanced solutions across areas such as cancer research, genomic analysis and scientific discovery. 

Beowulf Bash Event

Arcitecta is proud to sponsor the fabulous Beowulf Bash event again this year. Join the Arcitecta team for food, beverages and a great time. For more details, visit: https://beowulfbash.com/. 

• Date and Time: Monday, November 17, 2025, from 9:00 p.m. to midnight 
• Location: City Museum, 750 N 16th St, St. Louis, Missouri 

Active Archive Alliance Cocktail Reception

The Active Archive Alliance will host a cocktail reception on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Stop by the Arcitecta Booth #1439 for details and an invitation. 

Immersive Booth Experience

Once again, the Arcitecta booth will provide an immersive space for connection and inquiry. Visitors can sit back and immerse themselves in the ideas circulating on its state-of-the-art LED screens – and enter an environment where a diverse team of in-house artists responds to new ideas in creative computing, exploring the transformative relationship between technology and art.   

To schedule a meeting with the Arcitecta team at SC25, visit: https://www.arcitecta.com/events/2025/sc/chat/ 

Arcitecta, a creative and innovative data management software company, today announced that the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has selected Arcitecta’s Mediaflux® platform to serve as its central Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), marking a significant step in its digital transformation journey. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to enhance the discoverability, preservation and public accessibility of Australia’s audiovisual heritage, ensuring its continued relevance and value for future generations.

As digital assets grow at an unprecedented rate, traditional storage models and outdated workflows are no longer sufficient for institutions committed to preserving and providing access to cultural heritage. The NFSA faced mounting challenges in managing the scale, complexity and growing demand for access to its digital collections. Key requirements for its transformation included the ability to:

• Enhance digital discovery and engagement through improved online experiences and social platform integration;
• Replace legacy systems with a state-of-the-art, centralized platform that streamlines workflows and integrates seamlessly with existing collection and exhibition management tools;
• Support the government-funded digitization of at-risk materials across multiple National Cultural Institutions; and
• Automate external contributor workflows and reduce reliance on manual, labor-intensive asset handling processes.

NFSA selected Arcitecta’s Mediaflux following a rigorous evaluation, in which it distinguished itself with a unified, intelligent approach to data management. The platform delivers scalable, future-proof capabilities for metadata enrichment, long-term preservation and seamless integration with NFSA’s broader digital ecosystem. Mediaflux enables intelligent data tiering, automation and policy-driven governance—eliminating silos while enhancing operational efficiency.

This project reflects a larger trend within the GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sector as institutions adopt scalable, cloud-ready and metadata-driven platforms to address the growing demands of digital stewardship, research innovation and public engagement.

Through a multi-phase implementation, NFSA will modernize its workflows, making it significantly easier for external contributors to submit and access materials. The project is designed to support the long-term preservation of Australia’s cultural legacy while equipping NFSA with cutting-edge tools for managing digital assets. 

The first phase is focused on three key areas to optimize critical aspects of NFSA’s operations:

1. Intelligent Metadata Management – Mediaflux will automate metadata ingestion and contextual enrichment, improving archival searchability and aligning with evolving storage formats.
2. Next-Gen Collections Management – A robust digital accessioning workflow will streamline how new materials are curated and preserved.
3. Seamless Contributor Interaction – An intuitive web portal will allow external parties—broadcasters, donors, and production houses—to securely deposit and withdraw digital assets, simplifying ingest and access.

To support these initiatives with a strong technical foundation, NFSA is integrating advanced infrastructure and storage solutions tailored for performance, scalability, and sustainability. Wasabi’s cloud storage integration, managed by Mediaflux, offers cost-effective scalability, no egress fees and intelligent tiering to optimize storage efficiency and sustainability.

Dell PowerScale flash and archive solutions are powering the high-speed digitization and long-term preservation of archive collections, enabling instant access to priceless history at scale.

Why Mediaflux

Mediaflux enables organizations to unify and consolidate digital assets across diverse formats and departments within a single, cohesive platform. Purpose-built for petabyte-scale data environments, it delivers real-time performance and advanced metadata automation to streamline complex workflows. Mediaflux combines deep domain expertise with flexible customization. Its robust capabilities also unlock new monetization and audience engagement opportunities by making enriched collections more accessible than ever before.

In addition, Arcitecta’s proven track record delivering DAMS solutions to institutions, combined with its deep experience in complex, multi-industry environments, gave NFSA confidence in its ability to provide reliable support, ongoing maintenance and adaptability to future needs.

Resources

• More on the Mediaflux Digital Asset Management System (DAMS)
• Solution Brief: DAMS Powered by Mediaflux: Transforming Digital Asset Management for the Cultural Sector
• More on Mediaflux, a Data Management Platform

Arcitecta has recently joined leaders from prestigious research institutions along with technology vendors Spectra Logic, Wasabi, Cerabyte and IQM for DATAKAMER 2025. The inaugural DATAKAMER event was a collaborative setting where participants came together to chart a sustainable, AI-ready path for managing the world’s most important data. The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute hosted the event at its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

DATAKAMER 2025 was a one-day, invite-only gathering of technologists, researchers, archivists, and system builders exploring the data systems and architectures fostering discovery and the growing challenges and critical needs in managing research data at scale. Research institutions are grappling with the duplication of files across labs, inconsistencies in metadata practices, budget pressure resulting from the exponential growth of data, and much more. Having a sustainable infrastructure, from power to cooling and media lifespans, is not just an IT concern; it’s a scientific necessity.

An event highlight was the Research Data Management roundtable, which compared real-world practices for balancing researcher agility with institutional discipline. It focused on how automating governance, integrating compliance checks early and adopting metadata-driven platforms could support researchers and minimize manual overhead.

DATAKAMER 2025 takeaways include:

• Research institutions are curating datasets with standardized metadata, investing in platforms that make data discoverable and reusable, and designing governance to ensure reproducibility.
• Quantum computing is already being implemented in pilot workloads to lower total costs by reducing workload size, time and energy consumption. Mainstream adoption is expected to be gradual but is anticipated to expand within this decade.
• Long-lived media, such as ceramics, and automation of tape systems, as well as cloud models that eliminate egress penalties, show promise for reducing migration cycles by dramatically extending media lifespans.
• New generations of LTO tape remain the most cost-effective long-term storage option, with automation making it a practical and sustainable solution.
• Moving away from egress fees and unpredictable billing is critical. Predictable cloud pricing models are helping institutions plan more effectively.

The DATAKAMER name riffs on the Enlightenment kunstkammer, the cabinet of wonders where art, science, and invention collided. DATAKAMER follows that tradition: a living collection of ideas and technologies redefining how data is built, stored, shared and reimagined.

 Arcitecta, a creative and innovative data management software company, today announced the appointment of Robert Mollard as Global Business Development Lead. Mollard will leverage his extensive data management and workflow expertise to expand Arcitecta’s growth and delivery of its Mediaflux high-performance, secure and scalable data-driven solutions.

Mollard is an accomplished data management technologist and HPC and AI solutions architect with more than 20 years of experience helping customers solve data workflow requirements and complex challenges surrounding accessing, managing and optimizing data throughout its lifecycle. Before joining Arcitecta, Mollard worked for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for nine years, serving as an HPC and AI solution architect and storage specialist covering the Asia Pacific region. He joined HPE from SGI, where he had served as a storage specialist for three years. Prior to SGI, he served as the primary systems design engineer for Australia/New Zealand at Data Direct Networks (DDN), where he designed high-performance parallel file system solutions for HPC centers. Mollard started his career with the CSIRO and iVEC (Pawsey) Supercomputing Centre, designed and managed Petascale high-performance data systems and storage initiatives.

Throughout his career, Mollard’s understanding of the end-to-end data path and data-intensive storage solutions has delivered significant outcomes to scientists, researchers and enterprise organizations, enabling them to focus on their work of accelerating results and discoveries, rather than the movement and management of data.

Arcitecta, a creative and innovative data management software company, today announced significant enhancements to its Mediaflux® data management platform, delivering an AI-ready data fabric that supports all forms of data and AI models and provides a built-in vector database within its high-performance XODB® database. The innovative enhancements enable Mediaflux to power AI workflows by making multiple types of data AI-ready through unified metadata and vector embeddings. With the new vector support, users can leverage their entire data environment for AI training, significantly boosting model quality to accelerate advanced solutions in areas from cancer research to genomic analysis and scientific discovery. 

The enhancements arrive at a pivotal moment, as the rapid rise of AI and machine learning is driving significant adoption of vector databases, with Gartner predicting that 70% of enterprises will adopt them by 2026. Mediaflux directly addresses the market’s need for unified platforms to combat data sprawl, heterogeneity, compliance challenges and the demand for model reproducibility, all of which require robust metadata and vector-driven platforms.

Mediaflux powers AI with a flexible, model‑agnostic data fabric that works with any data and AI model at scale, eliminating vendor lock‑in and data format constraints. It accelerates time to AI insights with built-in pipelines to automate ingest, tagging and transformation, rich metadata and support for vector embeddings for increased context and accuracy. Additionally, a schema-less metadata model delivers the flexibility needed across diverse data sources, to adhere to regulatory compliant standards with on-premises options in addition to the cloud.

Unlike traditional solutions that bolt on external vector databases, Mediaflux delivers full metadata and vector search in a single, high-performance system that simplifies data infrastructure and reduces complexity. By optimizing data and leveraging vector embeddings, Mediaflux ensures that any unstructured or structured data becomes searchable and usable for AI, eliminating the need for a separate vector store. The solution’s core features include a metadata catalog, vector embeddings, similarity search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-ready data and single-pane orchestration.

Additional Mediaflux capabilities include multi-protocol support (NFS, SMB, S3) and multi-site, edge and real-time capabilities in addition to the new AI functionality. The platform achieves more than 95% bandwidth utilization on transfers with Mediaflux Livewire and its Point in Time security feature is recognized as a TOP 5 Cybersecure 10 PB+ NAS solution by DCIG.

Mediaflux delivers compelling advantages for enterprises managing massive volumes of data:

• Faster Time to AI: Mediaflux manages any type of data – text, images, time series and more – and provides ready-to-use data pipelines, eliminating manual preparation and accelerating AI initiatives.
• Better Models: Users can leverage richer training datasets through better inputs, leading to improved accuracy and quality of AI models, while also having the flexibility to deploy new models in the future without the need to modify their data.
• Cost and Operational Efficiency: Mediaflux offers a centralized platform that simplifies tooling and governance, providing a single system versus a patchwork of disparate tools.
• Native Vector Search Engine: It enables fast similarity queries at scale across trillions of records in milliseconds, significantly outperforming legacy tools that might take hours.
• Unified Data Fabric: Mediaflux delivers full metadata and vector indexing in a single system, combining metadata, vector, file and object data across multiple locations.
• End-to-End RAG Pipeline Support: The solution facilitates semantic queries, similarity search and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines directly within its environment.
  

The Mediaflux AI-enhanced platform is ideal for enterprises across multiple industries, including life sciences, research, media and entertainment, and government and defense domains, that work with massive volumes of data and require scalable, high-performance infrastructure. It is particularly beneficial for departments such as research and development, data science, genomics, medical imaging and machine learning operations within vertical industries such as healthcare, research/academia, finance and government.

The enhanced platform is driving next-generation AI workflows for leading organizations today:

• Cancer Research: Scientists can now query massive genomic datasets and medical imaging files to detect anomalies faster using semantic and similarity search.
• Government and Defense: Teams manage time-series and geospatial data in real time, supporting edge deployments in secure, disconnected environments.
• Media & Entertainment: Archives become searchable by meaning, not just metadata, unlocking new creative workflows and revenue streams.

XODB: A Powerful, Flexible Multi-Model Database

Mediaflux XODB is a flexible multi-model database with built-in capabilities for vector embeddings and plugin support for new models managed within Mediaflux. XODB provides users with a competitive advantage and is a foundational pillar of Mediaflux. With the new advancements, Mediaflux can now fuel seamless searchability and near-instant insights, providing a pathway for rich AI-feature expansion in the future. The platform comprehensively supports object, time-series, geospatial and vector data, maximizes storage, enriches metadata, and curates data collections for ease of searching. Interwoven with Mediaflux, XODB manages metadata in real time, instantly directing users toward their data, regardless of scale or location.

Availability and Pricing

The new Mediaflux AI-ready capabilities are available as an integrated part of the existing Mediaflux platform. It is licensed by user count, eliminating capacity-based fees and offering a pricing edge compared to patchworked tools.

Resources

• More on Mediaflux for AI
• Blog: Unlocking AI at Scale: Why Mediaflux is Your Data Fabric for the AI Era
• Solution Brief: Mediaflux: AI-Ready Data Fabric with Native Vector Search
• More on Mediaflux, a Data Management Platform
• More on Mediaflux XODB, a powerful, flexible multi-model database
• More on Mediaflux Livewire for data transfers at the speed of light