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With today's Internet of Hype-Things, technology innovation is no longer a strategic weapon to gain competitiveness or even sustainability at SME. Legacy frameworks are biased towards larger computing during happy day environment. This paper presents a new framework for SME to embrace IaaS with confidence to move up the value chain despite facing volatile economic turbulence. While disruptive BareBone cloud technology maybe inferior to large enterprises, holds potential opportunities to the smaller enterprise where base cost does matter. The use of three instruments (mass survey, interview and focus group) for collecting primary data has ensured consistent information validation. The findings from the directional correlation hypothesis affirm the negative correlation between infancy stage of technology innovation and the measurable organizational values expected by the small enterprise. This contribution can be applied during dilemma decision making stage for migrating into the next cloud computing infrastructure.

The Malaysia's Small and Medium Enterprises although consist of almost half of the total Malaysian companies, is still very fragmented with various type of ICT requirements and variance of complexity. During the turbulent economic period, the hostility of the environment becomes a battle field between various departments competing for the available scarce. With the industry inundated with so many techno evangelists promoting various enablers and inhibitors targeted mainly for larger network, the challenge of having the right balance scorecard for competitive barebones infrastructure specification have made SMEs rotting. The Information Technology Infrastructure Library is much generalized and it is not focused on Malaysia's SME under unstable economic conditions. The preliminary specialised framework in this research will therefore help to address the deficiency available resource, benchmark ICT specification to make better decision in uncertain times and energize SMEs competitiveness and can also be exported to other industry or country.