If you are in Sydney next Tuesday (9th of October) come hang out with the storage and information systems geeks.

IDWS, or Information & Data World Symposium is on and a great place to catch up with vendors and providers, share experience with colleagues and industry, and of course learn new things.

Here is the blurb

A comprehensive technical symposium designed for data management professionals and IT practitioners to broaden their knowledge into all facets of building and maintaining their information infrastructures. 

The symposium will be educational and technical, targeted to all IT levels from CIOs to the skilled staff responsible for managing and protecting their companies greatest asset, it's data. 

Be engrossed as key industry players battle it out against each other at the 'Great Debate'. Throw in live tweets and feeds from the floor including voting and see who will be crowned champion on a range of key topics. 

The symposium will feature a Technical Lab for vendors to demonstrate real information infrastructure solutions as well as technical workshops to suit all delegates. 

This one-day event will cover Big Data Analytics, Cloud Storage & Services, Infrastructure Convergence, Data Management & Protection, Storage Security, Virtualisation and a lot more.