July 20, 2021: Burwood Group today announced that they have received the 2020 Google Cloud Industry Solutions Partner of the Year for Public Sector. This award recognizes Burwood’s success in 2020, leveraging Google Cloud to create comprehensive and compelling solutions that made a significant impact on one industry across multiple regions. 

Burwood Group was recognized for their achievements in the public sector industry with Google Cloud, helping joint customers achieve success in infrastructure modernization, application migration, and research excellence.

Burwood is committed to transforming public sector learning, research, and outcomes with the power of cloud. Their dedicated Google Cloud consulting team has developed a deep understanding of public sector stakeholders, challenges, and outcomes as relates to cloud consumption. Highlights from Burwood’s 2020 industry advancements include:

• Development of the Burwood Cloud Billing Portal, a customized portal for public sector institutions. Burwood engineers developed this portal while encountering common cloud billing issues in higher education: grant funding management, departmental credits, and more. The portal helps clients responsibly monitor and expand their cloud footprint. 

• Worked with NIH STRIDES, an initiative that helps institutions accelerate biomedical research, to accelerate Google Cloud onboarding for researchers with STRIDES grants. Burwood Group, a STRIDES Reseller, continues to work with NIH to support these researchers in Google Cloud. 

• Achievement of expert-level competency in helping institutions maximize GCP for higher education research communities. Burwood Group enables researchers to migrate data and leverage capacity for GPUs and TPUs, equips researchers to perform machine learning, HPC, genomics, and simulations, and creates guardrails for sensitive, regulated datasets. “Google Cloud provides an excellent foundation for research in the cloud,” says Dan Speck, Vice President of Research and Development at Burwood Group. “We enjoy working with researchers to understand their use cases and build customized workflows and automation to increase productivity.” 

• Established BUGGHE, the Burwood User Group for Google Higher Education, to connect like-minded higher education clients. By facilitating regular meetups and education sessions, Burwood enables networking, solution sharing, and continued cloud innovation across higher education institutions. 

“I’m proud of our team’s achievements,” says Jim Hart, Burwood Group President. “Deepening our expertise in cloud computing, automation, and governance is critical to enabling today’s enterprises and institutions for success. Achieving Google Cloud Industry Solutions Partner of Year drives us to continue innovating and creating solutions for our clients.”

“We’re excited to recognize Burwood Group as our Industry Partner of the Year for Public Sector based on their deep knowledge and proven experience helping Public Sector customers succeed,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, Corporate Vice President, Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud. “Burwood Group has demonstrated strong technical and service capabilities in the Public Sector over the past year, and we look forward to expanding our work together to drive digital transformation of Public Sector businesses.”

About Burwood Group 

Burwood Group, Inc. is an IT consulting and integration firm and a Google Cloud Reseller Partner. We help information technology leaders design, use, and manage technology to transform their business and improve outcomes. Our consulting, integration, and operations services are rooted in business alignment and technical expertise in cloud, networking, security, and collaboration. Burwood Group was founded in Chicago, IL, celebrating over 20 years in business. Today, Burwood includes 200 employees, five U.S. offices, and 24x7 Operations Centers in San Diego, CA, and Normal, IL. Whether you are developing strategy, deploying technology, or managing operations, Burwood is a dedicated partner. To learn more, visit burwood.com.

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