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Availability and distribution for a brick-and-mortar retailer include the physical placement of products on shelves. In some ways, the Internet equivalent of availability and distribution is hosting, the process by which the creator makes a website accessible to users on the Internet.

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    Peter Mell and Timothy Gance, “The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing.” National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-145, 2011. Available at http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf .

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Trivedi, V. (2019). Hosting and the Cloud. In: How to Speak Tech. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4324-4_2

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