In a new post on the CloudPro website, Ian Murphy poses the question of whether it is time for KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) “to be given a fair shake.” The open source hypervisor, which is available as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Canonical Ubuntu, has become a competitor to established products, including VMware's vSphere, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Citrix's Xen, Murphy observes. In addition, there are an increasing number of large cloud providers who now offer KVM as an alternative to VMware and Microsoft, he points out. “KVM deserves serious consideration when planning IaaS deployments,” he says. Read Murphy’s evaluation of where the open source hypervisor stands now and what lies ahead to enable it to be treated as an enterprise stalwart in the article, “KVM: should it be ignored as a hypervisor alternative?”