KVM is my second alternative to virtualization, it complements other things I cannot do with my main virtualization service.

Our whole microservice environment runs on the solution. We have quite a few Windows environments that run on it.

We can use the solution the same way we use Red Hat, even though we don't use Red Hat itself. 

KVM is pretty good hyper-vision technology and is pretty much the same as VMware and Microsoft.

The platform changes from hardware to virtualized whenever possible.

The product overall has been useful, however, the solution is still too new to really give a concrete example as to how it's changed how the organization functions.

I mainly use it for customer projects, as KVM allows running virtualized environments for free in a very efficient way. Furthermore, it is an open source solution so modifying the code is possible. One might think that this is never necessary for most projects; however, when a specific customer requested an enhancement of the functionality, I was able to provide that. The customer was very impressed that KVM is such a professional solution although it is free.

Over the years, many customers were happy that they were able to choose between VMware, Xen and another alternative - KVM.

Compared to other virtualization solutions KVM is much faster and better at managing resources. For example, we compared XEN, KVM, and Vmware for creating development infrastructure for our programmers, we ended up using KVM.

It allows us to virtualize our entire IT Infrastructure without any software cost. We only need to spend money on support and deployment.

same features that vmware have concerning disaster recovery, high availibility and live motion of vm

In the Linux world, KVM is a very reliable solution which can be used for x86 architecture virtualization with reasonable overhead. Reliable and extensible have a tight integration with Linux security facilities, like SELinux, KVM does the job.

You will unlikely see KVM if you are using a cloud solution because of it is a seamless integration. If instead you are a Linux desktop user, KVM is the solution to go with if you have to start virtual machines with Linux or other operating systems with almost zero extra configuration needed.

KVM has a rich options set which can be directly used or via wrappers, such as libvirt.