For Service Providers, Big (network) Data is the New “Oil”

In this special guest feature, Alex Pavlovic, Director, Product Marketing, Nokia Deepfield, discusses “Data is the new oil,” a phrase coined by The Economist, that has become the mantra for describing the platform-based economy driven by hyperscale players such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix. To reach their global audience, these webscale giants need the ubiquitous connectivity provided by service providers and their networks. These networks generate and store vast amounts of data on networks, infrastructure and services.