Microsoft is open-sourcing and releasing to the Open Compute Project its 'Project Zipline' data-compression algorithm, plus related hardware specs and source code.

Intel IPP provides optimized implementations of the common data compression algorithms, including the BZIP2*, ZLIB*, LZO*, and a new LZ4* function, as “drop-in” replacements for the original ...

Everyone has unzipped files via an algorithm called Deflate that has been used for data compression for 20 years. Now Facebook says it has something better called Zstandard.

Huffman Coding: A lossless compression algorithm that assigns variable-length codes to symbols based on their frequency, optimising file size.