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SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In celebration of Earth Day 2009, SonicWALL, Inc. , 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.