I think we've done far too good a job of providing data," Benn told attendees at HIS CeraWeek on Tuesday.

"We're absolutely swamped."

Benn recalled a recent phone call with fellow Australian company Woodside when he discovered that one of the producer's pumps can provide 200,000 data points per second.

"That's more data points than are produced by Twitter globally in the same time frame," Benn said.

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