We examine the benefits of using computational storage devices like Xilinx SmartSSD to offload the compression to achieve an ideal compression scheme where higher compression ratios are achieved with lower CPU resources. This offloading of compute intensive task of compression frees up the CPU to cater to real customer applications. The scheme proposed in this paper comprises of Xilinx Storage Services (XSS) with Xilinx Runtime (XRT) software and HLS based GZIP compression kernel that runs on the FPGA.