International Business Machines Corporation
Adaptive compression for data services

Abstract:

A method, system, and computer program product for data compression in storage clients. In some embodiments, a storage client for accessing a storage service from a computer program is provided. A compression method is provided in the storage client to reduce a size of data objects. A frequency of compressing data from the computer program or modifying a compression algorithm based on assessing costs and benefits of compressing the data is varied.