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With Green IT Calculator, Customers Can Calculate the Benefits of Working Green with Telecommuting

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In celebration of Earth Day 2009, SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced the availability of the SonicWALL Green IT calculator. Designed as a useful tool for both employees and employers, the calculator helps companies calculate the cost and environmental savings of working green via telecommuting. The calculator can be found at http://www.sonicwall.com/us/10702.html

"SonicWALL is committed to helping its customers further along their green initiatives," said Steve Franzese, VP of Marketing, SonicWALL. "We created the Green IT calculator as a helpful mechanism for our customers to measure not only hard cost savings but also the environmental cost savings of telecommuting using SonicWALL's Secure Remote Access solutions. Both companies and their employees gain green benefits using our solutions."

Using the SonicWALL Green IT Calculator, companies can determine how much money they can save their employees and contribute to saving the environment by implementing a telecommuting strategy.

The calculator quantifies:

• Environmental savings that companies can save per week, month and year via telecommuting. The calculator looks at the company's overall footprint on cost savings associated with hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and gas. Companies can enter different variables including: number of days commuting, number of employees and average commute.
• Hard dollar cost savings that the companies can save per week, month and year using telecommuting as an alternative to working in the office. Companies can enter different variables to determine cost savings including: number of days commuting, average cost of fuel, and number of employees.

Additionally, SonicWALL has made available a whitepaper titled "Teleworking and the New Economy." The whitepaper not only discusses the benefits of teleworking, it also discusses cost savings, cost saving strategies, productivity gains and how to gain ROI by teleworking with Secure Remote Access.

For more information on the calculator and SonicWALL's green initiatives, go to: www.sonicwall.com

About SonicWALL, Inc.

SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses of all sizes by engineering the cost and complexity out of running a secure network. Over one million SonicWALL appliances have been shipped through its global network of ten thousand channel partners to keep tens of millions of worldwide business computer users safe and in control of their data. SonicWALL's award-winning solutions include network security, secure remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and management technology. For more information, visit the company web site at http://www.sonicwall.com/.

Safe Harbor Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements include but are not limited to statements regarding the benefits of SonicWALL's SSL-VPN remote clientless access solutions and functionality provided by SonicWALL's Green IT calculator. These forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the time the statements are made and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. In addition, please see the "Risk Factors" described in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, for a more detailed description of the risks facing our business. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to SonicWALL as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement.

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