Tomas Sjostrom

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About Tomas Sjostrom

President, Technology Services

"Too often businesses suffer from lack of action, execution, or decision-making. The key is to keep forward momentum and always look for improvements."

Biography

A professional technical leader with previous CEO, CIO, CISO, and CTO titles, Tomas has spent nearly 30 years working in IT compliance, management and cybersecurity in a wide range of industries and projects. At James Moore Technology Solutions he leads strategic planning and business development operations and supports his team as they provide more services and grow the company’s customer base.

Tomas has been on both the buying and selling sides of the equation, giving him a keen understanding of the balance between the right level of service and affordability. He measures his most memorable projects by the results achieved, whether it was untangling failing efforts in service delivery or pushing through with new technologies or ways of working.

Posts by Tomas Sjostrom

Disaster recovery and business continuity serve different roles. Learn what each one covers.

Disaster Recovery vs. Business Continuity: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters

By Tomas Sjostrom, CISSP | May 14, 2026
Your backup runs every night. Your files are in the cloud. So when a hurricane knocks out power for four days and half your team evacuates, you’re covered. Right? Maybe not. A backup strategy is one piece of disaster recovery, and disaster recovery is one piece of business continuity. Most businesses treat them as the…
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Hurricane season tests your IT. Learn why disaster preparedness starts with your technology.

Hurricane Season Readiness: Why IT Planning Is Critical to Business Survival

By Tomas Sjostrom, CISSP | May 7, 2026
In October 2024, Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 storm, leaving more than 3 million homes and businesses without power. That was less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene had already swept through the Big Bend region as a Category 4. For businesses that had their data on local servers, their…
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Proactive IT support catches problems before they cost you. See how modern tooling helps.

From Reactive to Proactive IT: How Modern Tooling Improves Business Outcomes

By Tomas Sjostrom, CISSP | April 7, 2026
There’s a version of IT support that most business owners know too well. Something breaks, you call someone, they fix it and you get a bill. It works until it doesn’t, and by the time it doesn’t, the cost has usually gone well beyond the repair itself. Lost hours, missed deadlines, frustrated staff and sometimes…
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IT management tools change for good reasons. Learn how upgrades protect your business.

Why IT Management Tools Change and Why That’s a Good Thing for Clients

By Tomas Sjostrom, CISSP | April 7, 2026
You get an email from your IT provider saying they’re moving to a new platform. Your first reaction is probably concern. Will anything break? Will there be downtime? Will your team need to learn something new? Those are fair questions. But when a managed IT provider changes its tools, the reason is almost always the…
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Learn what managed IT tools do behind the scenes to keep your business running and secure.

Behind the Scenes of Managed IT: The Tools That Keep Your Business Running

By Tomas Sjostrom, CISSP | April 7, 2026
When your IT is working well, you probably don’t think about it much. That’s actually the point. But behind that quiet, uneventful workday is a set of tools doing a tremendous amount of work that most business owners never see. The platforms your managed IT provider relies on determine how quickly problems get caught, how…
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Learn what remote monitoring and management means for your business and why RMM matters.

What Does It Really Mean to Remotely Manage IT Systems?

By Tomas Sjostrom, CISSP | April 7, 2026
Most business owners have heard their IT provider say something like “we monitor your systems around the clock.” It sounds good in a meeting. But ask a follow-up question about what that actually involves and the conversation gets vague fast. Remote monitoring and management (RMM) is the technology behind that promise, and understanding how it…
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A professional technical leader with previous CEO, CIO, CISO, and CTO titles, Tomas has spent nearly 30 years working in IT compliance, management and cybersecurity in a wide range of industries and projects. At James Moore Technology Solutions he leads strategic planning and business development operations and supports his team as they provide more services and grow the company’s customer base.

Tomas has been on both the buying and selling sides of the equation, giving him a keen understanding of the balance between the right level of service and affordability. He measures his most memorable projects by the results achieved, whether it was untangling failing efforts in service delivery or pushing through with new technologies or ways of working.