The IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE given each year to an individual, multiple recipients, or team up to three in number that has made outstanding contributions to information storage systems. The award is named in honor of Reynold B. Johnson. It is sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems, and was formerly sponsored by IBM.
The award was established in 1991. The award includes a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
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