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Hewlett Packard Enterprise DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-08
Digital Score 4.50 /10 B Hewlett Packard Enterprise - Complicity Index 654
Digital 4.50

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Domain: Digital / Technology
Entity scope: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (NYSE: HPE) is the enterprise-business successor created in the 2015 Hewlett-Packard Company split; HP Inc. (printers and PCs) and DXC Technology (Enterprise Services, formed in 2017) are separate entities. Historical HPE activity is distinguished from legacy Hewlett-Packard/EDS and later DXC activity throughout.1, 2, 3, 4
Compiled: 2026-09-08
Method: Live-search expansion of preserved research, followed by cited human source checks.

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

HPE operates in Israel through Hewlett-Packard (Israel) Ltd., which HPE’s FY2025 subsidiary exhibit lists in Israel as of 31 October 2025; that exhibit is expressly non-exhaustive because it omits subsidiaries not significant in the aggregate.1, 4 HPE markets ProLiant servers, storage, Aruba networking, GreenLake, and support through Israeli-market pages and local support channels.5, 6, 7

HPE’s Israeli subsidiary has documented government infrastructure-support relationships, including Population and Immigration Authority Aviv-system equipment and maintenance, National Digital Directorate core server-farm support, Israel Police Data Center Care, and Israel Prison Service equipment maintenance.8, 9, 10, 11

The documented roles concern hardware, firmware, diagnostics, spare parts, support, and maintenance; the available evidence does not establish HPE operation of the Aviv application, population registry, biometric database, or other customer applications.9, 11

HPE acquired Axis Security in March 2023 for approximately $412 million and integrated its security-service-edge technology into HPE Aruba Networking’s SASE offer.12, 13

HPE acquired Juniper Networks in July 2025, with Rami Rahim leading the combined HPE Networking business.14, 15

No public evidence identified of an HPE licensing, subscription, or integration relationship with Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks, or comparable Israeli-origin third-party vendors.16

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

Population and Immigration Authority - Aviv system: An official procurement-exemption decision records the Authority’s planned purchase of three HPE-manufactured Itanium rack servers and up to three years of maintenance to expand Aviv, subject to an approximately NIS 3.5 million ceiling including VAT and a contract end no later than 31 December 2026.9 The decision was discussed on 18 June 2023: its approved-period table specifies 1 July 2023–30 June 2026 and USD 957,352. Its reasoning separately describes an approximately NIS 3.5 million scope and an outer maintenance limit of 31 December 2026. That outer limit is not evidence of a post-June 2026 renewal. The Authority then expected migration from Aviv to Eitan by the end of 2026.9 This verifies HPE’s hardware-and-maintenance role, not operation of Aviv or its population-registry database.9

This official record is compatible with, but does not resolve, the previously reported May 2023 sole-supplier award of three Itanium servers plus services and maintenance, reportedly valued at NIS 3,829,410 and running from June 2023 to June 2026.8, 17

The available material does not establish whether the NIS 3.5 million / December 2026 official formulation and the NIS 3,829,410 / June 2026 reported formulation concern the same procurement, an amendment, or related awards.8, 9

Biometric-documentation and certificate-authority services: The existing record reports a 2016 HPE NIS 31 million biometric-documentation-services contract; the original 2008 arrangement predates the 2015 split and portions were later assigned to HPE and DXC.18, 8

Who Profits describes a NIS 3,129,750 May 2025–May 2028 biometric-infrastructure extension.8 A matching primary professional opinion names HPE Israel for PrimeKey EJBCA certificate-authority services supporting smart-ID authentication, approved electronic signatures and open banking, with proposed dates 1 May 2025–30 May 2028. It marks services, and describes substantial switching/re-certification costs and existing production components.19

The primary document does not establish biometric-database operation, biometric surveillance processing or specific physical hardware supply. It records an intention to continue sole-supplier support, not a retrieved executed award; this distinction corrects the broader secondary description.19

Basel checkpoint biometric system: Legacy EDS developed the Basel hand-scanner and facial-geometry checkpoint system under a 2000 contract; it was briefly within HPE’s Enterprise Services perimeter during 2015–2016.20, 2 The cited Israeli Ministry of Defense FOI response reportedly states that use ended at the end of 2016.20, 2 Enterprise Services transferred to DXC in 2017, and later DXC/Entserv Israel activity, including the 2022 sale to Ness/Hilan, is not attributable to HPE.2, 3 The underlying Ministry of Defense FOI response was not retrieved in the updated research, so the termination statement remains supported by the existing Who Profits documentation.20

No public evidence identified of current HPE operation, maintenance, or replacement of the Basel system.20, 2

No public evidence identified of HPE supplying Israeli-origin facial recognition, gait analysis, retail analytics, predictive policing, sentiment monitoring, behavioural analytics, or workforce-surveillance products in Israel or the occupied Palestinian territory.11, 16

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

HPE maintains Israeli GreenLake materials, while Zerto forms part of HPE’s cloud data-protection and disaster-recovery offering.5, 21, 22, 12

HPE acquired Zerto in 2021 for approximately $374 million; at announcement, Zerto was described as founded in 2009 and co-headquartered in Herzliya and Boston, with approximately 500 employees.21, 23

A 5 January 2025 National Digital Directorate professional opinion states that several core government server farms contain HPE storage, servers, and communications components, and identifies Hewlett-Packard (Israel) Ltd. as providing Data Center Care / Proactive Support.10

Listed functions include firmware analysis and updates, spare parts, monitoring and diagnostics via HPE Insight Remote Support Advance, and secure hardware-problem communications with HPE’s global service centre, handled by engineers in Israel and abroad.10

This confirms a diagnostic-and-support pathway, but does not identify personal data, biometric records, population-registry data, customer content, data-centre locations, or the jurisdictions in which HPE service centres process information.10

HPE’s ISO certification identifies HPE support/services activity in Ra’anana and Zerto product R&D and IT activity in Herzliya, but does not identify either site as a customer data centre, colocation facility, GreenLake region, or sovereign-cloud facility.24

No public evidence identified of HPE participation in Project Nimbus, a specific HPE sovereign-cloud contract, an HPE-operated or colocated Israeli data centre, or an Israel-specific HPE data-residency commitment.10, 11, 24

The available Axis materials describe SASE functions but do not establish where customer data is stored, routed, processed, or legally accessible.25, 13

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

Israel Prison Service: HPE has held reported IPS server-maintenance and IT contracts since the 2015 split, including reported terms of NIS 2,695,268 for 2015–2020, approximately NIS 1 million in 2020, NIS 364,075 in April 2024, and a March 2025–February 2026 NIS 445,000 sole-supplier maintenance term.18, 8 The reported 2025 term concerned HPE equipment in the IPS central server farm and backup farm, including central storage and seven SAN switches.11

No public evidence identified of a renewal after February 2026 in the targeted procurement searches; this researched absence does not establish that the relationship ended.11

Israel Police: An official 2018 procurement notice names Hewlett-Packard (Israel) Ltd. as sole supplier for Data Center Care of HP servers and chassis from 1 March 2018 through 1 January 2021.26 The existing record separately reports later Police Data Center Care arrangements, including a January 2024 intended sole-source extension through December 2026 valued at NIS 4 million, with support, management software, embedded senior systems engineers, and proactive support teams.18, 8, 11 The underlying later award was not retrieved; the reported 2024–2026 arrangement should therefore be treated as a secondary procurement lead rather than an independently verified signed award.11 The Israel Police operates throughout the occupied West Bank.18, 8

National Digital Directorate: The January 2025 support opinion documents an HPE Israel/HPE global-support engagement for civilian-government core infrastructure after July and November 2024, but does not concern a military, police, prison, biometric, or settlement-specific system.10

Reported military server farm: Who Profits reports that HPE was selected in July 2024 to provide hardware and manage construction-company selection for a new Israeli military server farm.8, 27 HPE has not publicly confirmed the selection, and no official award, signed contract, value, or Israeli procurement notice was retrieved; it remains an unconfirmed civil-society report, not a verified HPE contract.27, 11

Historical military IT: Pre-2015 Hewlett-Packard held a 2006 contract to manage Israeli military IT, reportedly piloted with the Gaza-blockade-enforcing Navy and expanded by 2009.3 AFSC Investigate assesses the enterprise-services work as likely transferred to DXC after 2017, while a reported 2011–2017 military server-supply contract was replaced by Cisco after 2017.3 These historical matters are not current HPE activity.3

No public evidence identified of HPE selling, licensing, maintaining, or developing offensive cyber tools, zero-day exploit capabilities, digital weapons systems, or a documented Israeli military or intelligence AI system.11

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Israel Hayom reported in February 2025 that HPE won an IDF AI-supercomputer tender and selected a facility subcontractor. The report supports an attributed military-computing project; it does not document HPE targeting software or operational use of particular data. No primary award was retrieved.28

HPE markets general enterprise AI, cloud, security, networking, GreenLake, and supercomputing capabilities in Israel.29, 22

No public evidence identified of an HPE AI/ML, computer-vision, autonomous decision-support, target-generation, autonomous-tracking, predictive-analytics, or algorithmic-policing product supplied to an Israeli state, military, intelligence, or security customer.29, 22, 11

No public evidence identified of HPE models trained on Israeli or occupied-territory civilian data, intercepted communications, or surveillance-derived data.11

The UN Special Rapporteur’s A/HRC/59/23, paragraph 38, explicitly names HPE’s earlier database-maintenance role and continued Israeli-subsidiary server supply. Its separate reference to HP supplying COGAT, prisons and police requires entity-specific attribution; it does not establish HPE participation in Project Nimbus or an HPE targeting algorithm.30

Zerto’s continuous-data-protection and disaster-recovery products, Axis’s SASE technology, and Juniper’s cloud-native networking portfolio are described in the reviewed corporate materials as commercial enterprise technology.12, 25, 14, 15

The reviewed sources do not document use of those products or their Israeli locations for Israeli military, intelligence, police, prison, settlement, or surveillance-apparatus customers.12, 25, 14, 24

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Zerto: Zerto is an HPE-owned, Israeli-origin cloud-data-management business.21, 12, 23 HPE/BSI certification revised in November 2025 and valid through 17 August 2026 lists “Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company” at 15 Ariye Shankar, Herzliya, for “R&D – Zerto Products” and “IT – Zerto Products.”24 This supports HPE ownership and Herzliya R&D through that certificate period, but not post-August-2026 status, headcount, or precise workstreams.24

Axis Security: HPE announced the acquisition of Tel Aviv-based Axis Security on 2 March 2023, and its FY2023 filing identifies Axis as a recent acquisition integrated with SD-WAN for a single-vendor SASE offer.12, 25

Secondary reporting identifies Axis as an HPE Israel development centre, but the reviewed primary sources do not establish a current Israeli Axis office, legal entity, R&D footprint, headcount, data-routing architecture, or Israeli government/security customer.31, 32

No public evidence identified of documented deployment of Axis technology in Israeli surveillance or state-security apparatus.25, 11

Juniper Networks: HPE completed its acquisition of Juniper Networks on 2 July 2025.14, 15 A current HPE Juniper Networking development-offices page lists a Tel Aviv-Yafo office at Azrieli Sarona Tower, verifying an HPE-group development-office listing; it does not specify headcount, legal entity, product team, or state-security customers.33 HPE’s Israeli support site also advertises Juniper Networking support.7

No public evidence identified of an Israeli Juniper government deployment, Israel-specific data-hosting function, or documented surveillance/security-apparatus use.7, 11, 33

Other footprint and attribution: The Beitar Illit settlement R&D centre was established by EDS Israel in 2006, operated by legacy Hewlett-Packard from 2008 to 2015 and briefly by HPE from 2015 to 2017, then transferred to DXC and sold with Entserv Israel to Ness in 2022.2 It is not attributable to HPE from 2017 onward.2 HPE’s other identified acquisitions - Cape Networks, Niara, Scytale, and Ampool - were not Israeli-domiciled, and no Israeli founding teams or Israel R&D were identified for them.34, 35, 36, 37

HPE’s careers portal lists Israel as an active hiring location.38

No public evidence identified of HPE co-development or licensing arrangements with Technion, Hebrew University, Weizmann Institute, or another Israeli research institution.11

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

Who Profits maintains a distinct HPE profile and reports HPE Israeli-government procurement relationships; it is a secondary civil-society source and the relevant contract-specific claims should be read subject to the primary-procurement gaps described above.8, 11 AFSC Investigate also profiles HPE separately from HP Inc. and DXC.3 The BDS National Committee identifies HP Inc. and HPE as separate boycott targets and, in April 2024, cited HPE’s IPS maintenance as ongoing-complicity evidence.39, 40

More than 100 unions and organisations petitioned OHCHR to add HPE to the UN settlement-business database.40 That petition is distinct from actual listing.40 HPE is not named in the supplied full-text checks of the 2023 OHCHR database update or the September 2025 update, A/HRC/60/19.41, 42 This is document-scoped: it does not rule out a subsequent update, correction, or another authoritative listing format.42

HPE published a second annual Human Rights Report in 2024; the public summary cited in the existing record does not address Israeli government contracts.43

No public evidence identified in the reviewed sources of an HPE-specific regulatory inquiry, export-control action, sanctions investigation, court action, or OECD National Contact Point complaint concerning Israeli state technology sales or services.11

HPE’s 2026 proxy identifies Patricia F. Russo as independent Board Chair and Antonio F. Neri as President and CEO; it reports Vanguard at 12.01%, BlackRock at 9.99%, and State Street at 5.45% beneficial ownership as of 31 December 2025, making Vanguard the only disclosed holder at or above 10%.44 A July 2026 Form 8-K records David I. Goulden joining the Board effective 24 July 2026.45

The supplied research did not complete a person-by-person review of executives’, directors’, institutional owners’, or family offices’ investments; no conclusion about such investments should be drawn.44, 45

Footnotes

  1. https://www.hpe.com/il/en/about.html ↩ ↩2

  2. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/160 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  3. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/hewlett-packard ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000164559025000130/ex-21x10312025.htm ↩ ↩2

  5. https://www.hpe.com/il/en/home.html ↩ ↩2

  6. https://www.hpe.com/il/en/networking/hpe-aruba-networking.html ↩

  7. https://www.hpe.com/il/en/support/networking.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3774 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  9. https://mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/en/p/attachment/005056BF4F1A1EEE84E306B7958B32D8/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%20%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%9D ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  10. https://www.mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/he/p/attachment/005056BF4F1A1EEFB3B80F6522C2D2E6/%D7%97%D7%95%D7%95%D7%AA%20%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%AA%20%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%AA ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  11. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3774 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17

  12. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000164559023000117/hpe-20231031.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  13. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2023/04/hpe-aruba-networking-simplifies-it-operations-with-aiops-driven-cloud-management-and-new-network-as-a-service-capabilities-available-on-hpe-greenlake.html ↩ ↩2

  14. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000114036125034206/ef20055124_ex99-3.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  15. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2025/07/hewlett-packard-enterprise-closes-acquisition-of-juniper-networks-to-offer-industry-leading-comprehensive-cloud-native-ai-driven-portfolio.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  16. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000164559026000021/fy25arsfiling.pdf ↩ ↩2

  17. https://bdsmovement.net/BoycottHP-GazaGenocide-Update ↩

  18. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/157 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  19. https://www.mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/he/p/attachment/005056BF4F1A1EEFBFA4AD607113D2E9/%D7%97%D7%95%D7%95%D7%AA%20%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%AA%20%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%AA ↩ ↩2

  20. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/113 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  21. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210701005206/en/Hewlett-Packard-Enterprise-Expands-HPE-GreenLake-Edge-to-Cloud-Platform-With-Acquisition-of-Zerto-a-Leader-in-Cloud-Data-Management-and-Protection ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  22. https://www.hpe.com/il/en/greenlake.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  23. https://investors.hpe.com/~/media/Files/H/HP-Enterprise-IR/documents/hpe-07012021-press-release-final.pdf ↩ ↩2

  24. https://www.hpe.com/psnow/downloadDoc/HPE%20Global%20ISO%2027001%20Certificate%20-%20IS%20676286-a00150674enw.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  25. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2023/03/hewlett-packard-enterprise-fortifies-network-security-with-acquisition-of-security-service-edge-provider-axis-security.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  26. https://mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/he/p/612522 ↩

  27. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3774 ↩ ↩2

  28. Israel Hayom, 17 February 2025: https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/02/17/will-israels-ai-supercomputer-spill-sensitive-secrets-red-flags-mount/ ↩

  29. https://www.hpe.com/il/en/compute/hpc/supercomputing.html ↩ ↩2

  30. https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g25/102/50/pdf/g2510250.pdf ↩

  31. https://www.geektime.co.il/hpe-aruba-data-center-israel-interview/ ↩

  32. https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001439992 ↩

  33. https://www.juniper.net/us/en/company/contact-us/worldwide-development-offices.html ↩ ↩2

  34. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/03/27/1453593/0/en/HPE-to-Acquire-Cape-Networks.html ↩

  35. https://moorinsightsstrategy.com/hpe-beefs-up-network-security-with-niara-acquisition/ ↩

  36. https://futurumgroup.com/insights/hpe-expands-security-portfolio-with-acquisition-of-scytale/ ↩

  37. https://futurumgroup.com/insights/hpe-acquires-ampool/ ↩

  38. https://careers.hpe.com/us/en/locations-israel ↩

  39. https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp ↩

  40. https://bdsmovement.net/news/100-unions-movements-and-solidarity-groups-demand-hpe-inclusion-un-settlement-database ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  41. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩

  42. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-versions/a-hrc-60-19-aev.pdf ↩ ↩2

  43. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hewlett-packard-enterprise_hpes-2nd-annual-human-rights-report-three-activity-7207077377607135233-QvyU ↩

  44. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000164559026000019/hpe-20260210.htm ↩ ↩2

  45. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000164559026000072/hpe-20260724.htm ↩ ↩2