Kenji Tanaka is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on developer tools, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, software supply chains, and infrastructure trends. Articles under this byline help technical readers understand how tooling changes affect software delivery, security, cost, and reliability.

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Cloud & Infra

Why AI Training Is Reviving Optical Circuit Switching

Nvidia has now put US$6bn into photonics components and US$125m into a switching startup. It does not sell optical switches; it sells the accelerators they connect.

3 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloud & Infra

Tape Shipments Fell 9 Per Cent, Then Rose 57 Per Cent the Next Quarter

LTO shipments fell to 160.3 exabytes in 2025 and Q1 2026 came in 57 per cent above the year before. Sony and Fujifilm are the only companies making the cartridges.

2 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloud & Infra

Monday's Outlook Failure Was an Authentication Outage Wearing an Email Costume

Outlook failed for hours on Monday and Microsoft blamed authentication components. The symptom list mixes mail, sign-in and mailbox search, which is one fault appearing wherever a token was needed.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloud & Infra

VMware's Answer to DRAM Prices Replaces Memory With a Drive That Wears Out

Cold pages move from DRAM to NVMe rated at three drive writes per day. The saving is real, and it moves cost from a capital purchase to a component that wears out.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloud & Infra

China Supplies All the World's Erbium, and Erbium Is What Makes Long-Haul Fibre Work

Coverage of rare earths is written about magnets. The exposure that reaches a data centre runs through erbium, the dopant that makes optical amplification work, and it has no substitute.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Cloud & Infra

VMware's AMD AI Factory Still Requires VMware Cloud Foundation

Supporting AMD's open software stack sounds like a route away from concentration. It requires VMware Cloud Foundation, so the concentration moves rather than disappearing.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Cloud & Infra

India Announced Rs26.75 Lakh Crore and Spent Rs7.7 Lakh Crore

One figure is announcements and the other is money spent, and they are being quoted in the same breath. The composition matters more than either: 56 per cent is one industry.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloud & Infra

AWS Cut 69% of Its Routers by Wiring Data Centres at Random

AWS abandoned shortest-path routing for a deliberately near-random fabric with thousands of equivalent paths. The efficiency gain is real, and asked whether customers see it, the answer was effectively no.

31 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Cloud & Infra

Nvidia Claims 30x More Work Per Megawatt, Against Its Own Last Generation

Vera Rubin is in full production and the efficiency numbers are vendor claims measured against Nvidia's own previous rack. Where grids rather than budgets are the constraint, per-megawatt is the number that decides what gets built.

30 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloud & Infra

A Startup Worth $1.05bn Wants Data Centres to Turn Themselves Down

Emerald AI raised US$150m to slow, pause or move compute when a utility needs demand cut, backed by Nvidia and GE Vernova. The 100GW it says this could unlock is the company's own model, not observed capacity.

30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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