Compression, as the name implies, squeezes or “compresses” the size of a file or data set. Compression techniques are used for voice, video, audio, text, and program data in hundreds of different ...

I have about 22GB of data involving about 350,000 fairly small files that I am migrating between datacenters during a downtime window. Transfer time between the two datacenters is acceptable if we ...

I used to dread organizing my old files. Years of photos, work documents, and random downloads sat scattered across multiple hard drives, and the thought of compressing everything into neat archives ...

The compression and decompression of files is one the most useful inventions in the history of computing, but the lack of portable and open tools poses a major obstacle to making the process as useful ...

If you want to squeeze the greatest amount of data onto your hard drive, compression is the way to go — and the ZIP format has long been a trusted method that nearly any Windows user can invoke.

Efficient data compression and transmission are crucial in space missions due to restricted resources, such as bandwidth and storage capacity. This requires efficient data-compression methods that ...

StuffIt Deluxe 9.0 is file compression, access, and organization software for Mac OS X. This new version offers faster file compression and decompression, a new user interface, and enhanced backup ...

Astute Tiger users may have noticed that StuffIt is no longer included in a clean install of OS X. Previous to 10.3, OS X relied completely on StuffIt to decompress archives from the Finder. In 10.3, ...

If you want to squeeze the greatest amount of data onto your hard drive, compression is the way to go — and the ZIP format has long been a trusted method that nearly any Windows user can invoke.