topic Re: Alfresco File Compression in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco File Compression

cdfarcus — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 03:50:39 GMT

Hi,We have a client who are inquiring us about a DMS and we recommended Alfresco Enterprise. One concern they have is the file compression capability of our offering. Does Alfresco have a native file compression capability (in transit and/or on storage)? If yes, what's Alfresco's file compression ra

Re: Alfresco File Compression

mrogers — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:58:40 GMT

File compression is generally dealt with at the O.S. layer. i.e. content is stored on a compressed filesystem. You can also have tiered storage so old or infrequently used content is on old slow compressed disks while your more important stuff is on a faster filesystem.

In a similar way files in transit will be compressed in many different ways to go over the physical connection.

Re: Alfresco File Compression

cdfarcus — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:57:12 GMT

thanks for the information.

Can you give me some examples on how Alfresco clients perform compression on their OS level? I'm looking for white papers/collaterals/best practice regarding this topic around Alfresco-related sites. Is it as simple as using file compression tools on the OS level .zip or .tar? I am quite familiar with tiered storage but I am curious on the general implementation.