Burwood Group today announced that it has received the 2021 Google Public Sector Partner of the Year - US Education Award. The award recognizes Burwood’s continued success in 2021, leveraging Google Cloud and Google Workspace to create comprehensive and compelling solutions that have made a significant impact on one industry.

Burwood Group and Google Cloud collaborate to help higher education customers modernize their infrastructure, applications, and data, and achieve research excellence. Burwood’s dedicated Google Cloud and Google Workspace consulting team maintains a deep understanding of higher education challenges and solutions related to cloud consumption.

Burwood is committed to helping customers leverage the power of the cloud to accelerate speed to business value, improve the end-user experience, and improve security posture—both across the public sector and beyond. Highlights from Burwood’s 2021 advancements with Google Cloud include: 

• Enhancements to the Burwood Cloud Billing Portal – The Burwood Cloud Billing Portal provides a customized cost management experience for public sector institutions. Building on the success of last year’s launch, Burwood continues to invest in improving the portal, with enhanced access management that makes grant funding management, departmental credits, and more, increasingly flexible for clients to manage their cloud budgets. 

• Continued work with NIH STRIDES – Burwood Group continues to enable biomedical research on the cloud as an NIH STRIDES reseller. Burwood’s continued collaboration with Google Cloud helps institutions accelerate Google Cloud onboarding for researchers with STRIDES grants. 

• Powering genomics research – Burwood has accelerated new research use cases for its customers seeking to handle sensitive, regulated datasets on the cloud. In collaboration with Google Cloud, Burwood is now helping researchers leverage cloud-based high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) to perform genomics research in direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

“The Google Cloud Public Sector Partner of the Year Award for US Education validates our cloud approach,” says Jim Hart, Burwood Group President. “Our dedicated higher education industry expertise paired with our IT, application, and data modernization expertise enables continued innovation, improved end-user experiences, and successful client outcomes. We are leaders in high-performance cloud computing and innovating to address the demanding requirements of the research community. We have supported projects including genomics, high energy physics, and astronomy.” 

“Over the past year, public sector organizations have relied on digital technologies to help them respond to rapid changes in the market, and we’re proud of the support that our partners like Burwood Group have provided these important institutions,” said Bronwyn Hastings, VP of Global ISV Partnerships and Channels, Google Cloud. “We’re thrilled to recognize Burwood Group as our Public Sector Partner of the Year for US Education based on their deep knowledge and proven experience in helping US education customers succeed.”

About Burwood Group

Burwood Group, Inc. is an IT consulting and integration firm and a Google Cloud Services + Reseller Partner. We help information technology leaders design, use, and manage technology to transform their business and improve outcomes. Our services in consulting, integration, and operations are rooted in business alignment and technical expertise in cloud, networking, security, and collaboration. Burwood Group was founded in Chicago, IL, and is celebrating 25 years in business. Whether you are developing strategy, deploying technology, or managing operations, Burwood is a dedicated partner.

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