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)

F5 has announced firewall software that runs on its Big-IP Application Delivery Controller (ADC) platform. The software, called Advanced Firewall Manager, provides stateful inspection at the network layer and also runs as a full proxy for HTTP traffic. [Read about this and more news at Network Computing]

Absolute Software is entering the IT service management (ITSM) arena with Absolute Service, which the company said is designed to help enterprises better align IT with business requirements using ITIL best practices to control service levels and predict points of failure. [Read more about this and other news at Network Computing]

Puppet Labs has received a $30 million investment from VMware. The cash infusion will help accelerate development of the company’s product line and expand its footprint globally. [Read about this and more at Network Computing]

Cisco is extending its Jabber unified communications client to virtualized workspaces with its new Virtualization Experience Media Engine (VXME). The software lets virtual desktop users access Jabber collaboration capabilities including voice, HD video, presence and IM. [Read more at Network Computing]

Mobile device management provider AirWatch has introduced mobile application management (MAM) software to help enterprises manage apps on both corporate- and user-owned mobile devices. [Read more about this and other news at Network Computing]