While Elias fought the graymail in his inbox, his engineering team was fighting a battle in the data center. They had just switched their entire archival system to the H.265 (HEVC) codec. By using this advanced compression standard, they could store 4K and 8K video files at roughly half the size of the older H.264 standard without losing any visual quality.
(Note: If "Graymail" referred to a specific niche encoding tool or a typo for "Grayjay" the streaming app, the technical principles regarding the H.265 codec above still apply fully to your situation.) graymail h265