Going for LEED Gold: LEED, for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, offers a certification for buildings that were constructed with environmentally friendly materials, make efficient use of water and energy, and provide a clean and healthy environment for inhabitants. It's not just for new buildings, and even parts of an old building can qualify -- as demonstrated by Digital Realty Trust's LEED-certifi Going for LEED Gold: LEED, for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, offers a certification for buildings that were constructed with environmentally friendly materials, make efficient use of water and energy, and provide a clean and healthy environment for inhabitants. It’s not just for new buildings, and even parts of an old building can qualify — as demonstrated by Digital Realty Trust’s LEED-certified transformation of a 20,000-square-foot datacenter in a 90-year-old Chicago site. Learn more about LEED and the project in yesterday’s Sustainable IT, including a Q&A with Digital Realty’s VP of Engineering, Jim Smith. Self-inflicted wounds: End users are always a step ahead of security, thanks to newfangled applications and devices they can’t do without. For security managers, resistance to IM, Wi-Fi, and USB sticks was futile, and resistance to YouTube, SMS, and social networking sites will be futile. What can you do about it? The Security Advisor knows. A grid in every datacenter?: Application grid platforms share some of the head-turning automation capabilities that many shops are looking to server virtualization to provide. Could application grids emerge as a general purpose infrastructure? 3Tera seems to be moving in that direction. Check out today’s Storage Insider. Lunch with the Borg: Database Undergrounder Sean McCown writes this week about his recent visit to the Oracle campus, and the start of his testing of Oracle Database 11g. Turns out that Oracle employees aren’t bizarre aliens with tubes and wires sticking out of them, and the new database installs real smooth. It also has some eye-popping new features… even a time machine. Technology Industry