Steve McQuerry

Steve McQuerry is Senior Director of Fabric Computing Strategy in Cisco’s Compute CTO office, where he helps shape the future of compute and data center infrastructure. His work explores how compute, networking, storage, and memory can come together to meet changing application and customer needs. Steve brings more than three decades of industry experience, with roles at Cisco, Arista Networks, Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), and Pensando Systems, later acquired by AMD. Having worked across technical strategy, product management, architecture, and customer engagement, he brings a perspective on how technologies are developed, deployed, and used in real environments. A CCIE Emeritus and Cisco Press author, Steve has been recognized multiple times as a Cisco Live Distinguished Speaker and has also presented at Pure Accelerate and Flash Memory Summit. His sessions draw on experience across the industry to explore the ideas shaping data center infrastructure, the tradeoffs behind them, a