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RAMmageddon – DigitalWasteland
by Jens Klasen
Jens Klasen on the upheaval in enterprise IT. Memory is scarce, servers keep getting pricier, and hypervisor, Kubernetes and cloud decisions are all up for grabs. Season one, "Rewind", starts with Jens's latest briefing and travels back to RAMmageddon Part 1. Hosted by Matilda. Voices are AI-generated: Jens's voice is a clone of his own, the ideas and analysis are his. Jens works at Everpure (Portworx); any connection to his employer is disclosed. Original briefings at klasen.ai.
Episodes
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RAMmageddon Part 11 – The Bill of Materials Tips Over
Season two starts in the present. In the third quarter of 2026, the PC market drops by more than 20 percent while Samsung and Micron report record profits. Jens explains why that is not a market disruption but a redistribution, and why the next two years are a window for modernization. In this...
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RAMmageddon Bonus – I Cloned My Voice
A bonus episode about this podcast itself. On a Wednesday evening, Jens asked how good voice cloning really is these days. By Friday afternoon, RAMmageddon – DigitalWasteland was live on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, in a voice he never recorded. Matilda asks how it went, what works surprisingly...
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Rewind 17 – RAMmageddon Part 1: Hardware Renewal 2026
The season finale rewinds to where it all began: February 2026 and the very first RAMmageddon briefing, "Time for preparation, not panic orders". With memory prices soaring and server prices rising fifteen to twenty percent, Jens argues for extending support and using the time gained to rethink...
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Rewind 16 – RAMmageddon Part 2: The Geopolitical Escalation
Three weeks after Part 1, the hardware crisis gained a new dimension: geopolitics. US semiconductor tariffs, Europe's structural dependency, the Taiwan risk and, from February 28, 2026, the war in Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz turned a chip shortage into a perfect storm. Jens explains why…
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Rewind 15 – RAMmageddon Part 3: Why Software Is Now the Only Answer
In March 2026, Google's TurboQuant cut the memory needs of AI models by a factor of six – proof, for Jens, that smarter software beats more hardware. Meanwhile memory prices kept breaking records, and Europe's Chips Act could not deliver fast enough. Jens explains why AI-assisted coding turns...
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Rewind 14 – An AI Prompt Is Not Text. It Is Software.
A detour from the hardware crisis: Jens built a personal AI coaching app, JK-Fitt, mostly with Claude Code – and learned his biggest lesson from a single component, the coach's system prompt. His first version was friendly, competent and completely interchangeable, until he realized he had...
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Rewind 13 – RAMmageddon Part 4: Hardware Lens Off, Service Lens On
"We understand that we should modernize. But where do we start?" In Part 4, Jens answers the question he kept hearing from CTOs, IT leaders and even a CFO. Classic sizing tools only ask which box fits the refresh. The service lens reads the very same discovery data and asks which software drives...
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Rewind 12 – RAMmageddon Part 5: The Map – Seven Patterns in Which Money Evaporates in 2026
"Got it, but where do we start?" After Part 4, that was the question Jens heard most. Part 5 is his answer: a map of seven patterns that show up in almost every mid-sized data center once you know what to look for, each read through the same three questions. What do we see, what does it mean, and...
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Rewind 11 – RAMmageddon Part 6: From Bottleneck to Structural Reset
In Part 1 of the series, Jens wrote about a crisis. In Part 6 he takes that word back: a crisis ends, but what the memory market is going through in 2026 is a structural reset. He lays out the evidence, explains why "cyclical" is the most dangerous word of the year, and derives a response…
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Rewind 10 – RAMmageddon UC 06: 80 VMs Become 12 Kubernetes Nodes – Fully Costed
A thesis is only worth as much as the calculation that carries it. In this deep dive, Jens takes a synthetic, fully disclosed reference model of a mid-sized data center and calculates what happens when 80 VMs are consolidated into 12 Kubernetes nodes on VMware vSphere Foundation, instead of being...
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Rewind 09 – RAMmageddon Part 7: From Data Warehouse to AI Door-Opener
Using an anonymized, archetypal mid-sized machine builder, Jens shows why AI initiatives in the mid-market rarely fail because of the models, and almost always because of the data architecture. He proposes a lakehouse as an additional layer on top of the grown data warehouse, and gives an honest...
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Rewind 08 – RAMmageddon: The Six-Figure License Bill Nobody Recalculates
In many environments, the most expensive part of a database server isn't the hardware, it's the SQL Server license that comes due every year. Jens explains how dozens of small, barely used SQL VMs, wrong editions and per-core minimums add up to a high five- to six-figure bill per year in typical...
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Rewind 07 – Modern Software Protects Itself – Older Software Doesn't
Modern software protects itself; older software relies on the infrastructure to protect it. In this short episode, Jens explains why that one difference decides what your hardware has to look like, and why it gets skipped in almost every modernization discussion. He describes a node design that...
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Rewind 06 – RAMmageddon Part 8: The Crisis Has Hit the Invoices
On July 1, 2026, IBM raised prices on FlashSystem by 40 percent and on Power servers by 17 percent. For Jens, that was the moment the memory crisis moved from a procurement question to the incoming invoices. In this episode he walks through the market update, explains why Apple's price hikes…
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Rewind 05 – RAMmageddon Part 9: The Kitchen-Table Moment
Kubrick's black monolith is now on your kitchen table. It's green, nine centimeters tall, and called DDR5. In July 2026, the memory crisis left the data center and showed up as a price tag for everyone who owns a device. Jens explains why this is structural rather than cyclical, why the real…
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Rewind 04 – RAMmageddon Part 10: The Spice Is Allocated
In Frank Herbert's Dune, it's not price that decides who gets Spice, but allocation. In August 2026, according to an unconfirmed DigiTimes report, the big memory makers had already fully allocated their DRAM and HBM capacity for 2027. Jens explains the allocation economy, why the private cloud...
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Rewind 03 – The Target Audience Is Me
Five good fitness apps, five silos, five foreign assumptions about how Jens should train. So he built IDUN, a personal AI coach for training, nutrition, recovery and longevity, with Claude Code and the Claude API, running entirely on his own devices. Jens walks through why software for an…
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Rewind 02 – What I Threw Away
Three weeks after introducing IDUN, his personal AI fitness coach, Jens deleted a working part of it: the Yazio integration, replaced in four days by his own nutrition module. A well-tested training model turned out to be wrong, self-soldered sensors gave way to ready-made hardware, and a large...
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Rewind 01 – The Mediator Between Worlds
Jens Klasen has joined Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) as a Cloud Native Architect, on the team around Portworx – and he explains why. Four open flanks at once – hardware, virtualization, container platform and cloud – mean the key question is no longer which platform is right, but how to keep…
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Trailer: Welcome to RAMmageddon – DigitalWasteland
Memory shortages, platform shake-ups and the IT decisions nobody wants to make. Season one, "Rewind", starts with Jens Klasen's latest briefing and travels back to RAMmageddon Part 1. Voices are AI-generated (Jens's voice is a clone of his own). Content and analysis by Jens Klasen. Original...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Jens Klasen on the upheaval in enterprise IT. Memory is scarce, servers keep getting pricier, and hypervisor, Kubernetes and cloud decisions are all up for grabs. Season one, "Rewind", starts with Jens's latest briefing and travels back to RAMmageddon Part 1. Hosted by Matilda. Voices are AI-generated: Jens's voice is a clone of his own, the ideas and analysis are his. Jens works at Everpure (Portworx); any connection to his employer is disclosed. Original briefings at klasen.ai.
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Jens Klasen on the upheaval in enterprise IT. Memory is scarce, servers keep getting pricier, and hypervisor, Kubernetes and cloud decisions are all up for grabs. Season one, "Rewind", starts with Jens's latest briefing and travels back to RAMmageddon Part 1. Hosted by Matilda. Voices are...
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