SAP Virtualization Week is presented by the SAP Co-Innovation Lab and takes place April 7-11, 2008 at SAP Labs Palo Alto.

They are now calling for papers, so if you are:

• a customer being interested to talk about your experience with virtualization to other customers and partners,
• a partner being eager to tell us the latest information about your products, or
• an SAP employee being involved in development, product management, consulting, partner management, etc. around the virtualization topic

Don’t hesitate to send your session submission containing the following:

• Title of the presentation
• Speaker: Name, Title, Company
• Length: 30/45/60 minutes
• Short abstract (up to 100 words)

Send your submissions to Roland Wartenberg, here, until January 31, 2008.

More information about this event can be found soon in the SDN Virtualization Wiki at https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/ESOAInfrastructure/Virtualization (where you also can find the session videos and presentations of the SAP Virtualization Week 2007).

The following companies participated at the last event held in June 2007:

3Leaf Networks, Accenture, Apple, BMC, Breo Consulting, Colgate, Computacenter, Continental Teves, Dell, Dow Chemical, Dyno Nobel, Egenera, EMC, Entisys, F5 Networks, Fujitsu, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, IDC, Intel, Kimberly Clark, LeverX Inc., Lockheed Martin, Network Appliance, Orange, Pemex, Questra, rPath, Shell, SUN, Symantec, Thinstall, Tideway Systems, T-Systems, Unisys, United Devices, VMWare, World Bank, Wyse Technology

Some feedback from the last event:

"... I found the event to be very informative and useful. ..."
"... Congratulations for the event last week. It was organized very well, and I could get a good overview of solutions in the virtualization area ..."
"... I had a great time hearing what IDC, partners and customers are saying about Virtualization.... "
"... Just wanted to let you know that I thoroughly enjoyed the SAP conference.  In particular, I was very impressed with the co-innovation lab concept ... "
"... the SAP Virtualization Forum was extremely well-organized and informative.  ... Your passion and excitement about the possibilities of virtualization were contagious, and this is one of the key reasons why it was not only educational, but also FUN, to attend the 2 days in Palo Alto.  I can only imagine how much work was involved in putting this all together, and you are to be congratulated for a super successful Forum. ... "