The teams will focus initial efforts on co-developing solutions for the Lumen portfolio of managed services in key areas including: "Resilient edge computing solutions will drive the next wave of digital innovation for the enterprise and customers need the right capabilities to effectively create, deploy, and manage applications in this new environment," said Jeff Storey, president and chief executive officer, Lumen Technologies. "This deliberate move to invest in and accelerate our efforts with VMware will allow us to quickly bring to market software-defined solutions that address the real issues our customers face as they move applications to the edge. That is powerful." "We see an exploding set of edge use cases that will result in every human experience becoming digital," said Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer, VMware. "These trends have only been accelerated as a result of the pandemic. Materializing these opportunities requires strong partnership by proven technical leaders.