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Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing
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Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing

by Mike Ebbers, Pilar Gonzalez Adrados, Frank Byrne, Rodney Martin, Jon Veilleux
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
228 pages
6h 20m
English
IBM Redbooks
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22 Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing
2.4.1 Many servers
If data can be stored and processed on a single server, a large number of small
servers could be a more appropriate solution than a centralized data store. If
data needs to be accessed and updated from different servers, however, the
following problems have to be addressed:
򐂰 Data retention may be required by law. When data is changed, does the
owning system or the updating system create a copy?
򐂰 Because the data may need to be processed for both reading and updating, a
data locking mechanism has to be implemented and all servers processing
the data need to participate in this locking scheme.
򐂰 Connectivity has to be established between the various ser
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