IBM Spectrum Scale Data Management Edition is designed to provide an industry-leading, unprecedented level of performance for an easy, flexible, and data-efficient, software-defined storage solution. As data volumes grow and applications become more capable, more companies need the fast, highly available, and highly scalable data access of IBM Spectrum Scale to drive their business. IBM Spectrum Scale Data Management Edition spans the enterprise storage portfolio, including flash, disk, tape, local, and cloud storage.IBM Spectrum Scale Data Management Edition delivers the functionality needed to store and access data through all supported protocols. It also includes quotas, snapshots, administrative GUI, compression, quality of service (QoS) control, and filesets. Data Management Edition includes the ability to create optimized tiered storage pools, information lifecycle management tools for simplified data management, data access using AFM asynchronous replication, multisite disaster recovery, native encryption, and hybrid cloud storage.