, founded by Jason Lieblich, who was CTO of the and management division of Citrix for three years until 2009, launched out of stealth mode this week. Exoprise is an encrypted Web service that analyzes a customer's Microsoft messaging infrastructure, including the application usage patterns of individual end users and application dependencies, to determine whether it makes sense to move to or Microsoft's hosted email service.

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Exoprise also offers "wizard-driven migration tools" to help ease the move from an internal to a hosted service, and ongoing SLAs and performance monitoring.

"Most IT organizations don't have great insight into the usage of their existing systems," Lieblich writes in a . "Whether it's a 100 person company or a 5,000 person company, they just don't know what's being used, what isn't, and how sophisticated their usage is of the and technology." Lieblich joined Citrix in 2006 when it acquired Reflectent Software, which he had also founded.

Exoprise is looking to help customers "secure your cloud adoption, automate it and manage it," and ensure proper management of hybrid environments in which some users remain in-house and others in a cloud service for reasons of or performance, Lieblich writes.