Images transmitted over the world wide web are an excellent example of why data compression is important. Suppose we need to download a digitized color photograph over a computer's 33.6 kbps modem. If ...

Longsys, the world's second-largest independent memory firm, might have an answer to ever-increasing SSD prices.

There are two categories of data compression. The first reduces the size of a single file to save storage space and transmit faster. The second is for storage and transmission convenience. The JPEG ...

Data compression works so well that popular backup and networking tools have some built in. Linux offers more than a dozen compression tools to choose from, and most of them let you pick a compression ...

With more and more embedded systems being connected, sending state information from one machine to another has become more common. However, sending large packets of data around on the network can be ...

I read with enthusiasm Todd Sundsted’s “Zip Your Data and Improve the Performance of Your Network-Based Applications,” (JavaWorld, November 1998) but I was a little disappointed. When I read the title ...

image: A research group at Aarhus University has developed a completely new way to compress data. The new technique provides possibility to analyze data directly on compressed files. A new grant from ...

The different types of compression can have a huge effect on your big data transfers. Knowing what types to use is important for your business. The world is generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data ...

Alireza Doostan is leading a major effort for real-time data compression for supercomputer research. A professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the ...