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Our mission: Bringing practical business and technical intelligence to today's structured cabling professionals

For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

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Informatica Expands Collaboration with Snowflake Partnership, Enabling Trusted AI-Ready Data Through Snowflake Apache Polaris and Cortex AI Integration

  •  New capabilities in cloud application and data integration with Snowflake
  • New Apache Iceberg™ Open Table connector for Snowflake with support for Apache Polaris™
  • Release of Informatica’s Master Data Management SaaS Extension for the Snowflake AI Data Cloud

Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, today announced new product innovations at Snowflake Summit, Snowflake’s annual user conference, including expansion of its support for Apache Iceberg. These updates help joint customers use both companies’ Generative AI (GenAI) technologies to build reliable, enterprise-level AI applications.

New Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud Application Integration Capabilities for Snowflake Cortex AI (now Generally Available globally):

  • New Cortex AI Connectivity: New connectors for Cortex AI, Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst and Cortex Agents
  • Simplified RAG and Agent Use Case Development: Simplify GenAI application creation for data professionals with no-code development and deployment with Snowflake Cortex AI

Informatica is enhancing its Open Table Connector (Apache Iceberg) to support Apache Polaris:

  • New Apache Iceberg Open Table Connector for Snowflake with support for Snowflake Apache Polaris (Private Preview): Informatica Cloud Data Integration’s no-code/low-code data pipelines can now load data into Snowflake from over 300 sources using the Iceberg table format. All tables are automatically registered in Snowflake Apache Polaris, enabling seamless interoperability across Snowflake and other query engines (Planned release in July 2025).

Informatica Master Data Management Extension for Snowflake:

Informatica is launching its Master Data Management (MDM) SaaS Extension for the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, allowing customers to consolidate master and transaction data across multiple sources. The seamless integration between Informatica MDM and the Snowflake platform enables customers to easily load their trusted master data assets from Informatica’s MDM SaaS including customer, supplier, product, patient, provider and other domains directly into the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The integration brings together data from disparate domains, so data practitioners can power their analytics and AI use cases.

“Informatica continues to be at the forefront of Generative AI and Apache Iceberg innovation with Snowflake enabling our joint customers to build for the future with a trusted, AI-ready data foundation,” said Rik Tamm-Daniels, Group Vice President of Strategic Ecosystems and Technology at Informatica. “Today’s announcement underscores our relentless commitment to innovating and leading with Snowflake to deliver greater value for customers through deep product roadmap and partnership alignment.”

“Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud and Generative AI blueprint for Cortex AI provide a rich foundation of trusted data and metadata intelligence that has enabled us to accelerate innovation with Cortex Analyst and deliver GenAI experiences for our end users leveraging Snowflake data,” said Moli Thomas, Senior Director of Enterprise Data and Analytics at HMH Education Company.

“Snowflake and Informatica continue to collaborate and innovate across product development and engineering to support enterprise customers,” said Saptarshi Mukherjee, Director of Product, Data Engineering at Snowflake. “Informatica’s expanded capabilities with the Cortex AI platform and private preview of its support for Snowflake Apache Polaris showcase our shared commitment to deliver an enhanced and seamless experience for enterprise customers using Snowflake to power their AI initiatives.”

Join us at booth #1509 and breakout session #AI212 at Snowflake Summit 2025 as we build the future of AI and enterprise applications, empowering organizations to harness the capabilities of advanced data management and GenAI applications.

About Informatica

Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, only Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access governed data, simplify operations and scale with confidence.

Trusted by 5,000+ customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation.

Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™

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