cat access.log | zcompress | ssh user@backup-server "cat > backup.log.z"

: It is often utilized in environments running UNICOM Intelligence (formerly IBM SPSS Data Collection) to manage participant fields and large-scale survey data. Usage in IBM SPSS Statistics

: A hardware-based compression acceleration feature on IBM zSystems that uses PCIe cards to provide high-performance compression/decompression without heavily taxing the main CPU.

For developers, the zcompress library is a drop-in replacement for zlib .