F5 has announced Mobile App Manager, a new set of products and services that puts F5 squarely in the mobile device management space. F5 aims to address one of the key challenges of mobile devices: how to protect corporate apps and data on mobile devices that are owned by the end user. [Read about this and more at Network Computing]

VMware has released a new product and upgrades to its suite of VDI products. The suite consists of three packages, all under the Horizon brand: Horizon View, Horizon Mirage and Horizon Workspace, a new product. [Read about this and more at Network Computing]

McAfee has released Real Time for ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) software that lets enterprises gather up information about any computer for real-time analysis during investigations of security incidents. [Read about this and more at Network Computing]

F5 Networks has snapped up the startup LineRate Systems. The company created Line Rate Proxy, software that provides Layer 7 services such as load balancing, acceleration, SSL offload and traffic management. [This story and more news at Network Computing]

The latest version of Opscode’s Private Chef is now available and has been deployed by Facebook to automate systems configuration in the social network’s Web-tier infrastructure, including thousands of servers. Private Chef uses the codebase of Opscode Chef 11, also just released, and features a new management console and centralized activity reporting. [Read more on Network Computing]

Dell is launching pre-built systems to run SAP’s HANA business analytics software. The systems scale from 1 Tbyte to 4 Tbytes of memory, and are built on the Dell PowerEdge 910, which the company says has the Intel chipset required for SAP HANA. (Read more on Network Computing)