As I attend the massive IBM Information on Demand conference here in Los Angeles, IBM today announced their new IBM Information Server http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/integration/info_server/architecture.html which combines data replication, data discovery, data federation, data integration ,data quality, metadata management and more. This is a very powerful product with an ability to support ETL for data warehousing systems, EII, and support operational data integration and data management. I will write more about this announcements in up and coming blogs.