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But as we look in the future the MDS 9700 makes more sense for a lot of data center designs. Top four reasons for customers to upgrade are […] </p> </div> <div class="card-social-footer" id="social-foot-160430"> <div class="card-social-icon-container">  <a href = "https://www.linkedin.com/cws/share?url=https://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/why-upgrade-to-mds-9700" aria-label="Share on LinkedIn" data-title=" " data-config-metrics-group='social_shares' data-config-metrics-title='linkedin_shares' data-config-metrics-item='linkedin_share' onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href, '', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="/wp-content/themes/ciscowordpress/svg/linkedin.svg"></a>  <a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http://bit.ly/1G2Uxij&text=Why Upgrade to MDS 9700&via=CiscoDC" target='_blank' aria-label="Share on Twitter" data-config-metrics-group='social_shares' data-config-metrics-title='twitter_shares' data-config-metrics-item='twitter_share'><img src="/wp-content/themes/ciscowordpress/svg/X.svg"></a>  <a href = "http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/why-upgrade-to-mds-9700&title=Why Upgrade to MDS 9700" aria-label="Share on Facebook" data-config-metrics-group='social_shares' data-config-metrics-title='facebook_shares' data-config-metrics-item='facebook_share' onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href, '', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"><img src="/wp-content/themes/ciscowordpress/svg/facebook.svg"></a>  <a href="mailto:?subject=Cisco Blog: Why Upgrade to MDS 9700&body=I saw this post on Cisco Blogs and thought you might like to read it.%0A%0AWhy Upgrade to MDS 9700%0A%0Ahttps://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/why-upgrade-to-mds-9700%0A%0A****Disclaimer****%0A%0ACisco is not responsible for the content of this email, and its contents do not necessarily reflect Cisco’s views or opinions. 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We will look at how high performance, high availability and flexibility allows customers to scale up or scale out over time without any disruption to the existing infrastructure. 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