Process aware data compression

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing software that determines an expected compression rate for a prospective process in a federated system including a plurality of host systems, the software comprising:

• executable code that obtains compression rate data for existing processes in the federated system;
• executable code that compiles the compression rate data into a plurality of entries in a process name table according to process identifier, client, and industry, each entry specifying a process identifier of a process executing on one of the host systems and a client who owns the process, and specifying a compression rate indicating an amount of data compression achieved when the process writes data from the host system to a storage device on the federated system;
• executable code that determines a specific entry in the process name table for an existing process that most closely matches the prospective process;
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• executable code that determines an expected compression rate of the prospective process based on the compression rate data for the specific entry.