# Data processed doubles every two years

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-03-02
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Cloud Mobility with Legendary Developer Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Overclock Labs (The Silicon Valley Insider Show)
- **Watch at:** 00:06:47 — https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-3-2-18-podcast
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2018-03-02-data-processed-doubles-every-two-years-nnfq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Data processed doubles every two years," Cloud Mobility with Legendary Developer Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Overclock Labs (The Silicon Valley Insider Show), 2 Mar 2018, 00:06:47. https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-3-2-18-podcast

## Quote — verbatim

> The data, amount of data we process is doubling every two years. So that's when we're like looking at solving this problem. And we discovered there's a lot of latent capacity lying around.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His explanation for why compute cost/speed pressure keeps growing despite hardware advances; used to justify the latent-capacity marketplace.