Welcome to Inside IT. It's a blog about a range of information technology topics that matter to today's large business customers: all kinds of hardware from corporate laptops, desktops and workstations through servers and storage and blades, software and systems management, IT services and more. Take a look at the category listings on the right to get a better idea of the scope of this blog.

You can access Inside IT directly by going here: www.direct2dell.com/insideit.

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One person you'll be hearing a lot from is Inside IT Lead Blogger Marc Farley, who's been running the EqualLogic Storage@Work blog for over a year now. Besides being a great blogger, he's pretty passionate about customers. And that's why I'm pumped that Marc has recently become part of the Dell team since we finalized the EqualLogic acquisition. You can expect him to blog about about storage hardware and software, plus other IT-related things that are driving conversation in the blogosphere like the S3 outage. And heck, if I know him, chances are good that you can catch him doing video from his car.

Beyond Marc, you'll have a chance to converse directly with Dell employees who are dedicated to addressing the IT problems that make your life difficult. In the process, we'll work to give you an inside look at things in this part of our business. We also want to give you a chance to shape what kind of products and services Dell offers you in the future. Our ultimate goal is to make this a place where you can connect with our Dell employees who are focused on simplifying the Information Technology issues you (and other customers like you) face on a daily basis.

To prepare for the Inside IT introduction, I've made some changes to a couple of categories on Direct2Dell: Services and Simplify IT. I intend to pull all the enterprise-focused services posts into a new category here called IT Services. I also removed the Simplify IT category from Direct2Dell to place those posts in the Inside IT categories that better represented the subject matter. Still working through the migration on both fronts. In the posts that we'll carry over to Inside IT, I'll close the comments on Direct2Dell and re-open them here in the Inside IT blog. Hope to have all that finished soon.

We look forward to many more conversations here. Now, I'll turn it over to Marc.