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✂ Celebrating 20+ years of tailored IT

It started with a napkin

An MBA, two economists, and a computer science major who are all brothers walked into a restaurant one spring afternoon in 2005. With over 60 years of combined IT industry experience — HP, Novell, Cisco, and IBM channel businesses — a vision, and some napkins, Open Source Tailors was born.
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The Question

One Question, two decades of answers

The question we sat down to answer that afternoon: how should an IT solutions provider deliver the ultimate customer experience?

We believed then — and two decades have confirmed — that customers want three things:

  • No-pressure recommendations from an unbiased, experienced advisor. 
  • Commodity pricing through open systems and honest sourcing.
  • Custom-tailored solutions that fit just right.
Why "Tailors"?
Because off-the-rack never fits quite right. Every recommendation we make starts with your measurements — your environment, your staff, your budget, your risk tolerance — not with whatever inventory someone needs to move this quarter. It's also why we've never locked ourselves to a single manufacturer in twenty years. The moment we did, the fit would stop mattering.

What We Practice

We run on our own advice

From our earliest days we've operated our own private cloud infrastructure — today at Flexential's data center in Salt Lake City — running the same virtualization, backup, and mobility solutions we recommend. When we tell you a solution works, it's because our own business depends on it too.

Our ultimate purpose at OST has never changed: to provide for our families and still make the soccer game and the school play — and to give our customers the same freedom. Technology should unlock the chains of the traditional office, not add new ones. Every solution we build is measured against that standard.
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Tailored Bio

Shea founded Open Source Tailors in 2005 as a traditional value-added reseller, right as virtualization was reshaping business IT. Over two decades, he's guided the company through every major shift in the industry — from on-premise infrastructure to managed services, private cloud hosting, and today's move into AWS and AI-powered solutions. Shea enjoys mountain biking, pickleball, smoking meat, and woodworking.  He is also a huge fan of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere and was named after Shea Stadium (yes, the Mets are usually terrible these days).

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Tailored Bio

Brent has been passionate about technology since the days of the Atari 400 and Apple II Plus. With more than 30 years of experience in the IT world, he has helped organizations of every size—from small and mid-sized businesses to Fortune 2000 companies—find practical solutions to real problems. His approach is straightforward: solve the issue at hand. No forced agendas, no endless red tape. Every customer is unique, and Brent believes they deserve to be treated that way. When he’s not working, you’ll find him cheering on his teams (yes, he knows the Mets are usually terrible), watching movies, or diving into anything involving superheroes.

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Twenty years in, still answering the phone

Come find out what an IT partnership built for the long haul feels like.

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