I'm sure in most large enterprises this is the case. I've noticed though, through my friends that work at these places, typically the layoffs are a signal to a company re-org. Basically, "You got 30 - 90 days to find a new position within the organization/dept, because your job here is being eliminated". Basically what it all amounted to in the end, the enterprise would technically "layoff", like 10K people, but then at the same time hire 95% of the same people to do the same job, but under a different dept/title.

If we know how to interpret the tables... it would help. Also, this is a CIO Research survey, if you've ever taken one, usually not all the questions are required. If you actually carefully RTFA, you would notice that in the "Where You Use Virtualization" out of 100% of the respondents to the question 34% are using virtualized desktops amongst other options. In the bottom table "Virtual Desktops a Hard Sell", out of 100% of the respondents to the question 25% are currently using virtualization. Since they don't reveal how large the answer pool is for each it's hard to conclude if the questions were even part of the same survey. So it's possible the magic numbers they show are from different polls, at different times or had different number of respondents to each question.

Additionally the article doesn't really explain what kinds of virtualization. There's what I would call desktop virtualization: primary host OS runs virtual OS (aka Parallels or VMWare Desktop) and 'bare metal', no host OS running virtual OS (aka VMWare Server).

Now is it likely that the numbers for desktop are right? I think so. While I work for an agency ~100 employees. ~50% of them are on Macs and 100% of those users are all using virtualization of some manner via Parallels. Of the other 50%, I would say 10% are using virtualization. So just in my company alone, we're about 60% virtualized on desktops alone, and I think we are just beginning to virtualize on servers. Most of this move to Virtualization has occured since the release of Macs on Intel, before that only a handful of us were using it. I would suspect that Apple's growing market share on desktop and notebooks would correlate fairly closely to the percentage of users using virtualization on the desktop, but I have no numbers to verify that.