Your Cisco AI POD. Production-ready, behind your perimeter.
QuickStrike is how BTA deploys and operates a Cisco AI POD inside your data center. Built on Cisco Stack Automation and Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA, your AI environment goes from rack to production in days, with enterprise security architecture in from day one.
Full data sovereignty. No cloud dependencies. No 90-day setup cycles. Banking, defense, healthcare, and finance teams get audit-ready AI on infrastructure they own, with BTA accountable for the outcome.
- IAM
- Enc.@rest
- TLS
- Audit
- Net.seg
- Posture
- Sign-off
Services-on-platform, three pillars.
Cisco Stack Automation delivers the speed. BTA is the Cisco partner accountable for the production outcome.
- 01 · Cost Clarity
Decide and justify.
We model on-premise versus cloud economics against your actual workloads and build the investment case. You commit with the numbers in hand.
- 02 · Speed to Production
Deploy with Cisco.
We design the Cisco Stack Automation blueprints and stand up your Cisco AI POD on Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA. Repeatable, validated, audit-ready.
- 03 · Operational Visibility
Run and prove.
Real-time dashboards, runtime governance, and a managed SLA. Your team owns Day-2, or BTA runs it for you.
Data sovereignty and deployment speed, together.
Enterprises in regulated industries need AI infrastructure that delivers both security and speed without trade-offs.
- 0%Cloud egress on sensitive datasets
- DaysFrom provisioning to production
- Day 1Audit-ready compliance posture
Your hardware, production-ready.
QuickStrike turns existing infrastructure into a validated AI environment in days, not quarters.
- 01
A production-ready Cisco AI POD
Your Secure AI Infrastructure becomes a validated Cisco AI POD with monitoring built in. Compute, GPU clusters, and storage are production-tuned on Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA.
- Cisco AI POD
- GPU clusters
- Production-tuned
- 02
Security and compliance auditors approve
Enterprise security architecture, encrypted data paths, and continuous monitoring are embedded before deployment begins. Identity, encryption, audit logging, and segmentation all verified at handoff.
- Zero Trust
- Encryption at rest + in transit
- Audit logging
- 03
Operations dashboards for every stakeholder
IT Operations sees infrastructure health and security posture. Data scientists see model performance and resource allocation. Executives see cost-per-token and utilization.
- IT Ops
- Data Science
- Executive view
- 04
Deployment automated by Cisco Stack Automation
BTA designs the Cisco Stack Automation blueprints that turn your infrastructure into a production Cisco AI POD. Reusable and policy-driven, so deployment is repeatable and configuration drift is gone. Day-2 changes happen through guided workflows your team operates.
- Cisco Stack Automation
- Guided deployment
- Day-2 workflows
- 05
Model deployment and management at scale
Deploy and swap between 9+ pre-integrated models on your Cisco AI POD through a unified interface. Llama, Mistral, Phi, Qwen, Granite, and more, ready to run.
- 9+ pre-integrated models
- Unified UI
- Hot-swap
- 06
Data sovereignty without compromise
Your prompts, your data, your infrastructure. Connect to SharePoint, NFS mounts, and vector databases while keeping everything behind your firewall.
- No egress
- SharePoint
- NFS mounts
- Vector DB
Purpose-built for enterprise AI infrastructure.
Most teams treat the platform as the finish line. Cisco Stack Automation gets you the engine. QuickStrike gets you the outcome: decided, deployed, secured, and operated.
- InfrastructureValidated Cisco AI POD on Secure AI FactoryGeneric reference build
- DeploymentCisco Stack Automation blueprints, BTA-designedManual scripts and runbooks
- Configuration managementPolicy-driven, guided Day-2 workflowsManual scripts and runbooks
- Platform vs outcomeBTA decides, deploys, and operates itYou integrate and run it alone
- Deployment timeDays to production90-day setup cycles
- Security architectureBuilt in from day oneBolted on after deployment
- Monitoring + dashboardsStakeholder-specific viewsGeneric infrastructure metrics
- Model integration9+ pre-integrated modelsBuild-your-own integration
- Compliance readinessDay-1 audit-readyMonths of post-deploy hardening
- Enterprise experience15+ years in regulated industriesOpen-source assembly
Built for every team that touches enterprise AI infrastructure.
QuickStrike serves the critical stakeholders in regulated-industry AI deployments.
- Banking
- Defense
- Healthcare
- Legal
- Manufacturing
- Insurance
- DevOpsValidated infrastructure, less time on glue code.
- SecOpsZero Trust posture from day one, with continuous monitoring.
- IT OpsOne platform to operate, dashboards built in.
- ML EngineersHot-swappable models, no integration tax.
- Data ScientistsPerformance metrics tied to compute spend.
- C-SuiteCost-per-token visibility and audit-ready compliance.
Securing enterprise infrastructure long before AI was the priority.
BTA combines Zero Trust security with rapid infrastructure deployment across banking, defense, finance, legal, and insurance for over 15 years. As a Cisco MINT partner, BTA deploys and operates Cisco AI PODs built on Cisco Stack Automation and Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA. QuickStrike packages that field expertise into how we deliver and run the platform, with your team owning Day-2.
- 100+Years combined engineering experience
- 1,000+Completed projects
- 250+Secured customers in regulated industries
- <2wFirst call to deployment proposal
We're architects who execute.
Three principles every BTA engagement runs on. Visible in the work itself.
We architect, deploy, and stay through Day-2.
Every engagement is end-to-end. We design the target environment, deploy it in stages, and remain on hand through the operational handoff.
We train your team to own the outcome.
Training is part of every engagement. By the close of an engagement, your operators can run, maintain, and defend the system to an auditor.
We measure success when your team runs it alone.
An engagement closes when your team is operating the solution without us in the room. SIMPLE methodology enforces this exit criterion on every project.
We meet you where you are.
Some teams want the full BTA delivery from architecture to handoff. Others bring us in for a single advisory window or a fully managed operations contract. Pick the model that fits and adjust as the business changes.
Consulting & Advisory
Strategy and senior guidance. Architecture reviews, technology assessments, and roadmap design for teams that own their own operations.
Learn moreManaged Services
BTA runs the system day to day under your governance. Monitoring, change management, escalation paths, and SLAs for teams without Day-2 capacity.
Learn moreDeployment
Implementation-only engagement. Faster than the Full Service Lifecycle when the customer team will not own operations afterwards.
Learn moreOptimization
Refresh and refine an existing environment. Performance, automation, and refactor work for platforms already in production.
Learn moreEnablement
SIMPLE-driven Quickstart programs that deliver a specific Cisco capability into production on a known timeline.
Learn moreMentoring
Capability transfer for teams adopting a new platform. Pair-programming, custom training modules, and Cisco MINT-aligned curriculum.
Learn more
QuickStrike, answered.
Direct answers to what most evaluators ask before deployment.
How does QuickStrike relate to Cisco Stack Automation and Cisco AI PODs?
Cisco Stack Automation is the deployment engine and the Cisco AI POD is the validated infrastructure. QuickStrike is how BTA delivers them as an outcome. We decide what to deploy and build the business case, design the Stack Automation blueprints, stand up your Cisco AI POD, and operate it under SLA. You get Cisco speed with a partner accountable for production.Isn't Cisco doing this now? Why do we need BTA?
Stack Automation is the engine. It assumes you already know what to deploy, on what, and why, and that someone will design the blueprints, integrate your data and identity, govern it, and run it. That is BTA. Buying the platform and operationalizing it are different problems. We solve the second one.How fast can we actually get this deployed?
Most QuickStrike deployments reach production in days on existing hardware. The first call to a deployment proposal typically takes under two weeks. Time-to-production depends on data sovereignty requirements and which models you intend to run.We already have infrastructure. Do we need new hardware?
Usually no. QuickStrike runs on your existing Secure AI Infrastructure with GPU capacity and provisions it as a Cisco AI POD. We size the environment during scoping. New hardware is required only when GPU capacity or storage falls below the workload requirements.What types of AI workloads can we run?
Inference, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation are all supported out of the box. QuickStrike ships with 9+ pre-integrated models including Llama 3.1 70B, Mistral 7B, Phi-3, Qwen 14B, and Granite 8B. Custom and proprietary models can be added through the unified deployment interface.What do we tell our compliance team about security?
QuickStrike is audit-ready on day one. Identity-based access, encryption at rest and in transit, audit logging, network segmentation, and continuous posture monitoring are verified before handoff. The platform aligns with CMMC, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and SOC 2.Why not just use cloud AI APIs?
Cloud AI is the right answer for many use cases. QuickStrike is for the cases where data sovereignty, regulatory exposure, or cost-per-token at scale make on-premise the economic and compliance choice. Many customers run both, with QuickStrike handling sensitive workloads.Who handles the deployment?
BTA architects deploy QuickStrike under the SIMPLE methodology, using Cisco Stack Automation to stand up your Cisco AI POD. Your operating team participates from day one and owns Day-2 by handoff. Ongoing Advisory and fully Managed Services are available if you want BTA to stay engaged.
Schedule a call. We’ll scope it in 30 minutes.
Bring your hardest architecture problem. We’ll tell you what we’d do, what it costs, and how long it takes.
- 30-minute scoping call
- 1,000+ projects shipped
- Training in every engagement