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“Investments in Green IT will clearly pay off for us. Within three years, 

thanks to the HP ProLiant server blade and Microsoft virtualisation  

technology, we will already have achieved our Return on Investment (ROI) 

for the project, primarily through savings in electricity and air-conditioning 

costs. That is what convinced our management to go ahead with it in the 

first place.” Peter Klemmer, head of IT at DS Dichtungstechnik

DS Dichtungstechnik GmbH produces and distributes 
sealing products, for example accessories for channel 
construction. The main objective of the organisation is 
to accommodate the intermittently strong concentration 
process involved in sewage management and to 
provide pipe and duct manufacturers with a complete 
range of sealing products, reliably, with efficient 
distribution logistics and perfect service. Founded in 
1983, the international firm is growing continuously. 
Today, it employs almost 100 employees, some of them 
in distribution centres in Poland, the Czech Republic, 
Slovakia and Austria. 

Many IT failures and outages
The IT infrastructure had developed side-by-side with 
the growth of the business but much of it no longer 
met current demands. For example, the network 
consisted of switches that were intended only for Small 
Office Home Office (SOHO) applications, the server 
landscape was heterogeneous and data storage was 
decentralised. Therefore, employees used inconsistent 
communication protocols that were hosted externally 

Objective: 

DS Dichtungstechnik GmbH needed to reduce 
high administrative and electrical costs as well 
as a rigorous overhaul of the heterogeneous IT 
infrastructure and optimisation of the 
communication system. At the same time, the 
pre-requisites for eventual conversion to a new 
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System had 
to be met.   

Approach:

• DS Dichtungstechnik opted for a Green IT

solution with HP ProLiant server blades, a 
central storage system and manageable 
switches. 

• Many applications were virtualised.
• A new network infrastructure was implemented

to improve communication. 

IT improvements: 

• IT administration now works pro-actively 

through a central management console. 

• Since the new system was implemented, DS 

Dichtungstechnik has enjoyed virtually  
uninterrupted IT operations. 

• The network is now administered centrally. 

Business benefits: 

•  DS Dichtungstechnik is saving almost €10,000 

per year in electricity costs; this amounts to a 
saving of 50 per cent.

•  All employees including the field staff are 

profiting from better communications. 

•  The project will achieve its intended Return on 

Investment (ROI) within three years. 

HP customer case study: DS Dichtungstechnik GmbH has completely modernised its IT infrastructure 
with solutions from HP and Microsoft and positioned itself more competitively for the future 
Industry: Building

Green IT promises DS Dichtungstechnik 

uninterrupted business processes