Until now, infrastructure teams and their hardware vendors have taken a cautious approach to integrating flash and solid-state storage into their infrastructures. The time for caution is over. The fact is, your aging disk storage systems are probably losing money for your organization by slowing down business processes and preventing business stakeholders from making optimized decisions in a timely fashion. This report discusses why flash should be infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals' first and only choice for high performance and highlights which use cases are ideal for flash deployments.