Secure Execution for IBM z15 arriving with New Models

IBM announced the latest additions to its IBM z15 series:

• IBM z15 Model T02
• IBM LinuxONE III Model LT2

A substantial part of the announcement is a new feature called Secure Execution. For a brief overview, see here. Secure Execution will become available in the following Linux distributions as announced by the respective distribution partners:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• SUSE Enterprise Linux
• Canonical's Ubuntu

We will publish more details on Secure Execution later. The impatient with an interest in lower level technical details might want to check out the presentations here and here.