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LOSSLESS DATA CAPACITY INFRASTRUCTURE
One data centre.
Six times the data.
The world is producing data faster than physical infrastructure can economically keep absorbing it. The conventional answer is more — more storage, more racks, more power, more cooling, more capital.
ElaraShrink changes the equation. At 6:1 lossless compression, six units of logical data occupy the physical storage footprint of one.
No data discarded. No approximation. The original returns byte for byte.
CREATE CAPACITY BEFORE YOU BUY CAPACITY
ElaraShrink turns compression into an infrastructure multiplier.
The same storage estate can hold more. The same network can carry more. The same data centre can support substantially more data before another rack, array or facility has to be added.
Six units of logical data. One physical storage footprint. No data discarded. No approximation.
Infrastructure expansion
without construction.
Six times the logical data. One physical storage footprint. The same data centre. More capacity.
THE BUSINESS OUTCOME
We do not sell smaller files.
We create capacity.
Compression ratios are technical numbers. Capacity is the business outcome.
Where ElaraShrink achieves 6:1 lossless compression, one petabyte of physical storage provides the effective logical capacity for six petabytes of original data. That means five petabytes of physical storage demand have been removed from that workload.
Not moved somewhere else. Not converted into lower quality. Not deleted. Removed from the physical capacity requirement.
Before buying the next storage array, adding the next rack or expanding the next data hall, measure how much more the infrastructure you already have can carry.
ONE LOSSLESS CAPACITY LAYER
Store smaller. Move smaller.
Restore exactly.
ElaraShrink is one lossless capacity layer for data at rest and data in motion. The server engine sits beside your infrastructure. For browser workflows, the .elz2 codec can operate at the point where the user already is.
ElaraShrink reduces it at the source.
The compact representation consumes less physical storage.
Fewer bytes cross the network.
The original returns exactly as it was. Byte for byte.
Carry the advantage further. The data can remain compact until the moment it is actually required.
ElaraShrink Live
Sits in the active data path. Reduces bytes as systems write, transmit, replicate, ingest and serve them. The immediate effect is less traffic through storage paths, networks, caches and object stores.
ElaraShrink Archive
Applies a deeper lossless squeeze to records, databases, backups, archives and media that no longer need to remain in the critical path. The immediate effect is more usable capacity from the storage estate already owned.
ElaraShrink Media
The format-aware service for live media operations and permanent media archives. Handles stills, audio, video, masters and the complete project estate around each asset.
WHERE THIS MATTERS MOST
The difficult data is where this matters most.
Text is easy. Redundant logs are easy. Media is not.
Images, audio, video, camera originals and production assets are already information dense. Conventional lossless compressors often find very little left to remove.
ElaraShrink compresses media losslessly.
That matters because media houses face one of the hardest storage problems in the world. Their most valuable files are also the files they cannot simply throw away, downgrade or recompress destructively.
These files accumulate for decades. And the master must remain the master.
The live test and customer pilot establish the actual result for the customer's corpus.
ELARASHRINK MEDIA
Keep every master.
Carry fewer bytes.
A master is not just another file. It is the file you cannot afford to change.
Lossy compression can make media smaller by removing information. That is not what ElaraShrink does. ElaraShrink reduces the storage footprint while preserving the file itself.
When restored, the original returns byte for byte. Lossless means the economics can change without the asset changing.
That is the proposition for broadcasters, studios, streaming platforms, post production houses, sports archives, news organisations and content libraries.
Keep the asset. Reduce the infrastructure carrying it.
THE HARDEST BENCHMARK IS THE MOST HONEST ONE
Media is not an easy benchmark.
That is precisely why it matters.
Any compressor can look impressive on highly repetitive data. The harder question is what happens when the data is already dense. Media exposes weak compression quickly.
If an engine can materially reduce real media assets while remaining completely lossless, that tells you far more about the underlying compression capability than another synthetic benchmark.
So we do not ask a media house to believe a slide.
Your master is the benchmark.
Test a media masterPROOF BEFORE PROCUREMENT
Your master is the benchmark.
Upload a real file. Run it through the same ElaraShrink engine used by the service. Pack it. Measure it. Restore it. Hash the original. Hash the restored file. Compare them. Then decide.
Drop a real file here
Any supported file type, up to 200 MB. You will see the measured result from the actual engine.
No registration. The public proof service processes the file to produce the result and does not retain it after the test completes.
The live meter is offline. Cells stay blank until Flask returns a verified .elz2 round trip. Nothing here is invented.
Seen enough on one file? Calculate your capacity multiplier.
Enter your storage volume and data mix to see the capacity and cost saving across your whole estate.
INFRASTRUCTURE EXPANSION WITHOUT CONSTRUCTION
A data centre should be measured by useful data, not empty bytes.
Imagine an estate holding 1 PB today. At a 6:1 compression factor, 1 PB of physical capacity can represent 6 PB of logical data. That is a 6 times effective capacity multiplier for that workload.
The equivalent of six data centres worth of stored data can occupy the storage footprint previously required for one, where the workload achieves that compression factor.
That is not a better archive format. That is infrastructure expansion without construction.
One petabyte of physical capacity holds six petabytes of original data.
Six petabytes of conventional storage requirement becomes approximately one petabyte.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
The records cannot change.
The bill can.
Financial institutions face a different version of the same problem. Transaction histories, audit records, client documents, regulatory records, logs, evidence. Years of data accumulate because the organisation is required to preserve them. Those records cannot simply be degraded to save money.
ElaraShrink separates the two questions.
ElaraShrink can reduce the representation while preserving the original information exactly. For immutable storage workflows, compression can occur before the record is sealed. The WORM or Object Lock system remains responsible for immutability. ElaraShrink is responsible for density.
Preserve the record. Reduce the estate.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
The network never stops writing.
Telecommunications infrastructure produces data continuously. Call records, OSS events, BSS events, signalling, telemetry, network logs, billing records, fraud data, performance data.
The bytes do not arrive once. They arrive every second. Then they are retained. Replicated. Backed up. Transferred. Analysed. Archived.
Every unnecessary byte therefore multiplies across the estate.
ElaraShrink attacks the representation at the source. Fewer bytes enter the storage lifecycle. Fewer bytes need to be retained. Fewer bytes need to be replicated. Fewer bytes need to move.
Compress the byte before you pay for it everywhere else.
THE ECONOMIC QUESTION
A compression ratio is not a business case.
Avoided infrastructure is.
The economic question is not: How small did the file become?
The economic question is: What no longer needs to be bought because the file became smaller?
If 6 PB of logical data requires approximately 1 PB of physical storage, the remaining 5 PB of conventional physical capacity requirement does not have to be provisioned for that workload.
That is where compression becomes infrastructure economics.
THE COMPLETE CALCULATION
Measure net cash, not theoretical savings.
ElaraShrink should earn its place in the stack. So the commercial calculation includes the whole system.
Not the headline compression ratio. Not a synthetic benchmark. Not a laboratory number.
Your infrastructure.
Your workload.
Your bill.
Your answer.
ELARASHRINK TECHNICAL EVIDENCE
Prove everything.
We think infrastructure software should be sold differently. Do not trust the claim. Test the engine. Bring representative data. Bring difficult data. Bring media. Bring already compressed formats. Bring the files that matter.
| ~70% average reduction | Average. Actual result depends on data mix. |
| ~3.3× capacity from compression | At a 70% reduction. Compression alone. |
| Up to 6× effective capacity | Estate outcome. Not compression alone. |
| 30 GB/s integrity throughput | Cache-resident benchmark only. |
| Byte exact restoration | SHA-256 verified on every restore. |
| Customer controlled deployment | Browser proof uses public proof server only. |
Your data decides.
ELARASHRINK ENTERPRISE
Deploy inside your estate.
Keep control of every byte.
ElaraShrink integrates with existing applications, nodes and storage tiers without requiring the customer to surrender control of the data path. Production data can remain inside the customer's network or cloud tenancy.
Customer controlled deployment. Byte exact restoration. Observable operation.
Use ElaraShrink inside the application process for direct control and lowest integration overhead.
Run ElaraShrink beside the application over a local interface.
Deploy ElaraShrink beside an application inside the same pod or workload boundary.
Run one service per node to reduce what that node writes or sends.
Point ElaraShrink at a defined active tier and measure the result without changing every application.
Best for deep processing of settled data outside the critical path.
START WITH ONE TIER
Measure first. Expand only where the numbers hold.
Run representative files through the live proof environment.
Measure the real data mix, current duplication, retention periods and infrastructure costs.
Deploy ElaraShrink against one controlled tier for 14 days.
Measure reduction, throughput, restore performance and byte exactness.
Roll out only to data classes and operating paths where the measured benefit clears the threshold.
SAFE TO PROVE. SAFE TO LEAVE.
Every commitment we make.
Infrastructure software should not require a leap of faith. These are the commitments that make the proof safe to run and the decision safe to make.
Start a 14-day pilot →Production deployment can run inside the customer's network or cloud tenancy.
A packed result is not trusted until the original byte sequence is reconstructed and verified.
Start with one tier. Keep existing applications, retention systems and storage controls.
The ability to restore packed data must not depend on a continuing paid subscription.
Where data is already at or near its compression floor, ElaraShrink reports the result rather than manufacturing a saving.
BEFORE YOU BUILD MORE INFRASTRUCTURE, CHANGE THE NUMBER OF BYTES
One data centre.
Six times the data.
The industry has spent decades answering data growth with physical expansion. ElaraShrink introduces another option. Increase density first.
At 6:1 lossless compression, the same physical storage footprint can carry six times the logical data. Even on media, where lossless compression is notoriously difficult, ElaraShrink is designed to find capacity without sacrificing the original.
Create capacity before you buy capacity.