Your business technology agenda requires extreme performance for ever more demanding applications and customer experiences. Storage issues, often the biggest performance bottleneck, will soon be alleviated. Solid-state storage technologies deliver extreme performance, and fierce competition is accelerating innovation. This report lays out this vendor war and makes some bold calls on the most viable options. The services you design and deliver are about to get fast — very fast! In this era of the digital business, infrastructure and operations (I&O) pros will need this speed to win, serve, and retain customers.