Higher Education
IT infrastructure and cloud consulting to enable your staff, researcher, and student communities.
Burwood is a 2023 Google Cloud Partner of the Year
We’re proud to be the Google Cloud US Education Partner of the Year, Public Sector, for the third year in a row.
The cloud is transforming higher education — improving performance, adding new capabilities and access, and driving down costs. Its infinite capacity and cutting-edge capabilities can support artificial intelligence and machine learning initiatives, GPUs, TPUs, and more. When you leverage the cloud, you open new possibilities for education and research in your institution.
For higher education institutions with decades of investment in legacy IT, cloud adoption can be challenging. Burwood Group has built an expert cloud consulting team with deep technical expertise in cloud onboarding, Kubernetes architecture, and automated infrastructure and data processes. We enable you to confidently manage and monitor your cloud resources.
Technology Solutions for Higher Education
Technology investments for higher education institutions must impact key student, staff, and faculty outcomes. Many institutions need to leverage and modernize their legacy infrastructure to meet these needs. Burwood Group’s higher education consultants are experts in mapping end user expectations back to IT infrastructure decisions and strategy, all while ensuring cybersecurity is top-of-mind. Beyond Google Cloud, our deep technical expertise includes:
Collaboration
Help your faculty and students teach, learn, and collaborate with a connected voice, video, and application environment.
DevOps
Technologies like Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes can transform the way you support digital classroom resources.
Network
Create a network that enables data protection, segmented user access, and fast collaboration for students and faculty.
Higher Education Case Studies
Burwood Group partners with community colleges, public and private universities, and for-profit learning institutions across the United States to create cloud-driven solutions that improve collaboration, access, and research.
Scaling Classroom Applications with Infrastructure As Code
When Brown University needed to expand and improve their JupyterHub classrooms, they partnered with Burwood to create an automated architecture with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
“When I started using JupyterHub, I had to personally monitor all classrooms. I was worried about scaling. Working with our Central IT staff and Burwood Group, we’ve expanded that classroom to a central, supported, and automated environment. Today, we have reliable technology that produces a great student experience.”
Isabel Restrepo, Data Scientist, Brown University
UW-Madison Develops Google Cloud Platform Service for Public Health Research
UW-Madison partnered with Burwood Group to implement the university’s first public cloud environment with security controls for working with sensitive public health data.
East LA College Expands Desktop Virtualization Transformation
East LA College needed to replace legacy desktop virtualization tools in its campus labs and libraries. Timing was critical to ensure nearly 35,000 students could enjoy a reliable technology experience on the first day of fall classes.
Using Terraform and GCP to Speed Cloud Expansion in Higher Education
How we helped a flagship public research university quickly expand their Google Cloud Platform (GCP) at their affiliated hospital.
Community College IT Assessment and Roadmap
Facing budgetary and technological challenges, a large community college district enlisted Burwood to conduct a comprehensive assessment to help identify and prioritize technology opportunities to improve the delivery of education.