You get a picture of the lucrative business Google Apps has become with Cloud Sherpas, which was named Google’s 2011 Enterprise Partner of the year this week.

Just take a look at the four-year-old company’s growth during the past year:

• 300% growth (third consecutive year)
• New regional offices on New York, Chicago and Austin.
• Acquired cloud service providers in Australia, New Zealand, Kansas City and San Francisco.

Since it opened its doors in 2008, Cloud Sherpas has moved one million people top Google Apps.

Cloud Sherpas represents a new breed of cloud services providers. It works with Google, itself a cloud services company. Once services providers integrated software. Cloud Sherpa’s success demonstrates how the new solutions providers are growing fast by integrating apps that live online as opposed to the traditional on-premise variety.