Flash storage provides faster performance than traditional storage and can help enterprises innovate and transform more quickly. It consumes less space, power, and generates less heat than traditional storage. Some key use cases for flash storage include big data analytics, transactional workloads, frequently accessed large archives, online search applications, and using flash as RAM for in-memory computing. When evaluating flash-based storage, enterprises should understand their current storage challenges, analyze specific workloads, define primary concerns around performance, capacity or cost, choose the appropriate flash storage type, and evaluate the cost per gigabyte and cost per I/O operations.