Essbase, Multiple Cubes, ODBC Strategy

Hello All,
I'm new to Essbase and am working on an upgrade project taking us from the v7 platform to the v11 (with a temporary stop at v9). One obstacle that we've faced is the fact that having multiple cubes which have jobs that consume a lot of bandwidth and few the same ODBC driver to acquire the DB data a "bottleneck" effect occurs where some jobs don't run because the driver is working other jobs. I am looking for a best-practice solution that anyone has implemented to mitigate this "bottleneck" effect. Your help is appreciated; thank you.
v/r
Roy

Great Thanks! ***
However, since I am a "newbie" can you ellaborate on that process; how it is done? I really appreciate your help, I believe that seems like the most viable solution. I believe the next thing we will be doing is actually splitting half our cubes on one server and the other half on another to "load-balance" between the two. Your explination is truly appreicated.
v/r
Roy

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