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Hewlett Packard Enterprise DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-07-04
Digital Score 6.96 /10 B Hewlett Packard Enterprise - BDS-1000 636
Digital 6.96

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Digital Audit - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Domain: Digital / Technology Entity scope: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (NYSE: HPE) - enterprise IT (servers, storage, Aruba networking, GreenLake, HPC, services). CRITICAL ENTITY-SPLIT: HP Inc. (printers/PCs, split Nov 2015), DXC Technology (Enterprise Services + former EDS, spun off 2017 - inherited the Basel checkpoint-biometric and settlement R&D items), and the pre-2015 Hewlett-Packard Company (legacy) are SEPARATE entities, attributed to their own entity throughout. HPE-own current acts (incl. Israeli-domiciled acquisitions HPE operates) are in scope. Compiled: 2026-06-21 Method: Live web search only

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

HPE operates in Israel through its wholly owned subsidiary Hewlett Packard (Israel) Ltd. (Ra’anana), retained by HPE (not HP Inc.) at the November 2015 split, and markets its full enterprise line - ProLiant servers, storage, Aruba networking, and GreenLake - to the Israeli market via a dedicated Israeli-market website and local sales/support.123 HPE’s Israeli subsidiary holds documented sole-supplier status for multiple Israeli government IT contracts (awarded without competitive bidding), including the Israel Prison Service server farm, the Israel Police data centre, and the Population and Immigration Authority’s Aviv system (detailed below).4 HP Inc. (printers/PCs) and DXC Technology (IT services, formed 2017) are separate legal entities, attributed to their own entity except where attribution clarifies the historical record.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

Israeli Population Registry - Aviv system (HPE-own, current): HPE is the sole supplier of Itanium servers to the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority for the Aviv system, which maintains Israel’s Population Registry (recording ethnic identity/religion and including the “Yesha” database tracking Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank); a May 2023 sole-supplier award covers three Itanium servers plus services/maintenance from June 2023 to June 2026 at NIS 3,829,410 (~USD 818,250), with HPE holding sole-supplier status since 2017 (the Aviv system is reportedly being phased out ahead of replacement by IBM’s Eitan system, but HPE’s contract runs to June 2026).45 Biometric documentation (HPE-own, current): HPE was contracted in 2016 (NIS 31 million) for biometric documentation services and, in May 2025, received a further contract from Israel’s National Digital Agency for biometric-database computing-infrastructure maintenance (NIS 3,129,750, through May 2028); the original 2008 contract predates the split (legacy-HP) with portions later assigned to both HPE and DXC.64 Basel checkpoint biometric system (attributed to DXC/legacy-HP): the Basel hand-scanner/facial-geometry checkpoint system controlling Palestinian movement was developed under a 2000 EDS contract, briefly held by HPE 2015–2016, confirmed terminated at end-2016 per an Israeli Ministry of Defense FOI response, with any residual passing to DXC (which sold its Israeli IT subsidiary Entserv Israel to Ness/Hilan in 2022) - not an HPE current item.78

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

HPE maintains a dedicated GreenLake page for the Israeli market, but no public evidence was identified of a specific sovereign-cloud or government-cloud GreenLake deployment with Israeli state entities beyond the documented server/storage supply contracts.2 HPE’s Zerto acquisition (September 2021, ~USD 374 million) is material to its cloud data-management offer: Zerto was co-headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, and its Israeli engineering team became an active HPE R&D site for cloud data protection/disaster recovery within the GreenLake portfolio.910 No discrete HPE data-residency commitment or sovereign-cloud contract with the Israeli government was identified.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

Israel Prison Service (HPE-own, current): since the 2015 split HPE has continuously held IPS server-maintenance/IT contracts (2015–2020 NIS 2,695,268; 2020 NIS ~1m; April 2024 NIS 364,075; March 2025–February 2026 NIS 445,000 sole-supplier).64 Israel Police (HPE-own, current): HPE holds ongoing Data Centre Care contracts with embedded engineers (2017 NIS 366,000; 2021–2024 NIS 4m; a January 2024 extension running through December 2026 at NIS 4m), and the Israel Police operates throughout the occupied West Bank.64 Israeli military server farm (reported July 2024): Who Profits reports that in July 2024 HPE was selected by the Israeli military to provide hardware for, and manage construction-company selection for, a new (reportedly underground) military server farm; HPE has not publicly confirmed this and no formal contract value or official Israeli procurement publication was identified, so it is reported here as an unconfirmed Who-Profits-sourced selection rather than a verified signed contract.411 Historical military IT (attributed to legacy-HP/DXC): pre-2015 Hewlett-Packard held a 2006 contract to manage Israeli military IT (piloted with the Gaza-blockade-enforcing Navy, expanded by 2009); AFSC Investigate assesses this as likely transferred to DXC post-2017, and a 2011–2017 military server-supply contract was reportedly replaced by Cisco after 2017.12

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

No public evidence identified of HPE developing or supplying AI or autonomous-systems technology specifically for Israeli military or intelligence applications as a discrete product line; HPE’s broader AI strategy (GreenLake Intelligence, HPE Cray supercomputing) is marketed to Israeli enterprise customers via its Israeli product pages.1314 HPE’s Zerto acquisition brings Israeli-origin continuous data-protection/disaster-recovery capabilities into the portfolio as commercial enterprise tools with no identified Israeli-military-specific application.9 A search-result claim that HPE won a ~$500m contract to upgrade Israel’s “smart border” surveillance could not be verified against any primary source and is excluded as unverified. No public evidence identified of HPE supplying algorithmic/predictive-analytics tools to Israeli military intelligence in its own right.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Zerto (Israeli-founded, HPE-own since September 2021): founded 2009, co-headquartered Herzliya/Boston, acquired by HPE for ~USD 374 million (~500 employees), now an HPE R&D site for cloud data management within GreenLake - an in-scope HPE-own Israel R&D footprint.910 Beitar Illit settlement R&D centre (attributed to DXC/Ness): established by EDS Israel (2006), operated by legacy-HP (2008–2015) then briefly HPE (2015–2017), transferred to DXC in 2017 and sold with Entserv Israel to Ness (Hilan Group) in 2022 - not attributable to HPE from 2017 onward.8 HPE’s other smaller acquisitions are not Israeli-domiciled: Cape Networks (San Francisco, 2018), Niara (Santa Clara, 2017), Scytale (US, 2020), Ampool (US, 2021) - none identified with Israeli founding teams or Israel R&D.15161718 HPE’s careers portal lists Israel as an active hiring location, with the Herzliya (Zerto) presence the primary HPE engineering site following the 2022 DXC divestiture.19

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

Who Profits maintains a live HPE profile (distinct from HP Inc. and DXC) documenting HPE’s current Israeli government contracts from procurement records, and AFSC Investigate likewise profiles HPE separately from HP Inc. and DXC.6412 The BDS National Committee names both HP Inc. and HPE as separate boycott targets and, in April 2024, cited HPE’s continued IPS maintenance as ongoing-complicity evidence; over 100 unions/organisations have petitioned OHCHR to ADD HPE to the UN database of businesses involved in settlement activity.2021 OHCHR database status: that petition to add HPE indicates HPE was not listed at the time of the campaign; the database’s September 2025 update added 68 companies, but available sources do not confirm whether HPE was among them, so HPE’s inclusion in the OHCHR database is unconfirmed as of this audit.2122 HPE published a second annual Human Rights Report in 2024 that does not address its Israeli government contracts in the public summaries available.23

End Notes

Footnotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

  7. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/113 ↩

  8. https://www.whoprofits.org/publications/report/160 ↩ ↩2

  9. 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

  10. https://www.timesofisrael.com/hewlett-packard-enterprise-buys-israels-zerto-to-expand-cloud-data-protection/ ↩ ↩2

  11. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3774 ↩

  12. https://investigate.afsc.org/company/hewlett-packard ↩ ↩2

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

  14. https://www.hpe.com/il/en/greenlake.html ↩

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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