YugaByte CEO Karthik Raghanathan joins The Data Whisperer to break down what’s broken in today’s data stacks and what a knowledge-memory architecture for agentic AI actually looks like.

Most enterprises believe they have a data problem. In reality, it is an architecture problem in disguise, and the rise of agentic AI is making that distinction impossible to ignore. That is the central argument Karthik Ranganathan, CEO of Yugabyte, makes in this episode of Don’t Panic! It’s Just Data, hosted by Scott Taylor of MetaMeta Consulting.

The conversation traces 30 years of infrastructure evolution in 30 minutes. From Oracle’s dominance as the monolithic backbone of enterprise applications, to the NoSQL revolution of the mid-2000s, and the cloud-native era of the 2010s, it builds toward the rise of agentic AI. In this new phase, systems do not just store and retrieve data; they act on it autonomously.

“The challenges of current architectures under pressure are no longer theoretical. Agentic systems expose every seam, every silo, every bottleneck you’ve been quietly managing around,” says Raghanathan.