Jamie Gruener's datastore Q&A

Jamie Gruener Senior Analyst of Enterprise Computing and Networking at Yankee Group In his role at Yankee Group, Jamie covers the storage market and is responsible for delivering expert insight on storage networking standards and emerging storage technologies. His areas of expertise include SAN management and virtualization. His research also covers carrier integration of storage technology, content distribution, server technologies and the storage service provider market.

QUESTION: We have far too many FTPs occurring between our mainframe and open systems environment. Considering the different file types such as OS390, NFS or CIFS, what recommendations can you make to help us approach a resolution?

Download this free guide

UK IT Priorities 2018 survey results

Download this e-guide to discover the results of our 2018 UK IT Priorities survey, where IT leaders shared with us what they are going to be investing in over the coming 12 months.

Start Download

• Corporate E-mail Address:

  You forgot to provide an Email Address.

  This email address doesn’t appear to be valid.

  This email address is already registered. Please login.

  You have exceeded the maximum character limit.

  Please provide a Corporate E-mail Address.

• • I agree to TechTarget’s Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and the transfer of my information to the United States for processing to provide me with relevant information as described in our Privacy Policy.

  Please check the box if you want to proceed.

• • I agree to my information being processed by TechTarget and its Partners to contact me via phone, email, or other means regarding information relevant to my professional interests. I may unsubscribe at any time.

  Please check the box if you want to proceed.

By submitting my Email address I confirm that I have read and accepted the Terms of Use and Declaration of Consent.

ANSWER: How about doing a mirrored datastore that would use a fan-out approach? In this case, you'd put together a series of server clusters focused on NFS or CIFS that would handle the user queries instead of having the mainframe pinged each time there is a query. It's not a perfect approach but the more you distribute the load, the less likely your mainframe and open systems are stressed.