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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Kenji Tanaka is a RECATOOLS editorial persona for developer tools, cloud, DevOps, and software supply-chain coverage. Articles are produced and reviewed under RECATOOLS editorial supervision.

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Illuminated fibre optic strands, illustrating a report on Kioxia taking an optical solid-state drive to customer trials.
Cloud & Infra

Kioxia Takes an Optical SSD to Customer Trials, and Names the Obstacle

At the Open Compute Project summit in Taipei, Kioxia said a PCIe Gen6 optical drive is going to customer trials and that cost and reliability still block mass production. The candour is the useful part - and the real subject is distance, not storage.

16 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cloud & Infra

India's Largest GPU Cluster Is Being Built for an American Company

Up to 10,000 NVIDIA B300s at a Chennai campus, booked at Rs 10,000-15,000 crore. It is Together AI's second buildout in a week - and the power arithmetic in the announcement does not quite add up.

14 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Stacked shipping containers beside gantry cranes at a port — illustrating the logistics contractor whose compromise reached several retailers' customers.
Cloud & Infra

The Breach Was at the Vendor. The Notification Came From Everyone Else.

Valve, Framework and a football club all told customers about a breach this week. None of them was broken into. One logistics vendor, one analytics vendor and one unnamed host did the losing.

10 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Cloud & Infra

Singapore Has Warned About Cisco More Times in 2026 Than in Any Full Year Before It

We read all 847 CSA alerts since 2020. Cisco leads every vendor, 2026 is already the heaviest Cisco year on record, and four of the five Catalyst SD-WAN alerts ever issued are from this year.

8 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Steel transmission tower photographed from below against a bright sky — illustrating the ten-gigawatt power commitment behind this data-centre financing.
Cloud & Infra

Nvidia Is Reported in Talks to Guarantee $250 Billion of OpenAI's Ohio Data-Centre Debt

The Wall Street Journal reports Nvidia would backstop the lease and construction financing for a 10-gigawatt campus in Pike County. OpenAI has no investment-grade rating, so the chipmaker's balance sheet would stand in for one.

29 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
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Cloud & Infra

Hut 8's Second Beacon Point Lease Is $9.8bn — Which Works Out at $124.74 per kW a Month, Rising to $188.68

The filing discloses the term, the escalator and the capacity but not the rent. We solved for it — and for the three different headline numbers, only two of which are contracted.

26 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
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Cloud & Infra

AWS Split SES Into Three Plans — and the Dearer Ones Cost More Per Email at Every Volume

Amazon SES now has Essentials, Pro and Enterprise tiers. Pro carries a US$105 monthly fee and a higher per-email rate in every band, so no send volume makes it the cheaper way to deliver mail.

26 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
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Cloud & Infra

Wafr's $100M Cooling Raise Is Small — the AI Data-Centre Water Problem It Targets Is Not

Vancouver startup Wafr Technologies said on 2 July 2026 it had raised $100 million toward a $300 million goal for data-centre cooling. Its water and energy savings claims are its own.

9 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
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Cloud & Infra

Meta Compute: Meta Is Reportedly Exploring a Cloud Business for Excess AI Capacity

Bloomberg reports that Meta is building a cloud business, internally called Meta Compute, to sell access to excess AI infrastructure to outside customers. Reuters says Meta declined to comment, so this remains a reported plan rather than a launched product; the clearer confirmed facts are Meta's rising AI capex and CoreWeave's $21 billion AI-capacity agreement with Meta through December 2032.

6 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
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Cloud & Infra

Three Singapore-Based Operators Moved Into South Korea's Data-Centre Market in Two Weeks

STT GDC opened its first South Korea data centre this month, days after Keppel and Digital Edge each moved on Greater Seoul. Singapore-based operators are expanding into a market where vacancy is around 1.4% and power, not demand, is the binding constraint.

19 Jun 2026 · 6 min read
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