Conveniently situated just off the M8, between Glasgow and Edinburgh, our Bathgate site services all major locations within Scotland..

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier– secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Stirling
• Counties: Scotland – East Lothian, West Lothian, Midlothian, Fife, North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, Perth & Kinross, Dumfries & Galloway

Our Wakefield facility complements our Heywood site, and is home to over 1,5 million individual files. Located just north of Leeds on the M62, this purpose-built site provides over 400,000 cubic feet of secure document storage space.

Services offered at this location:

• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Scunthorpe, Grimsby, Hull, York, Harrogate
• Counties: West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, Humberside

Adjacent to the M60 just north of Manchester, our Heywood storage facility is also our main operation centre. Along with 1,000,000 cubic feet of document storage space, the Heywood site is home to our main environment-controlled Media Storage Centre in the North of England.

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• Media & Consumables – backup media & equipment
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Manchester, Liverpool, Preston, Blackpool, St Helens, Blackburn, Southport, Bolton, Burnley, Oldham, Bury, Warrington, Ellesmere Port, Chester, Macclesfield, Stoke on Trent, Chesterfield, Mansfield, Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln
• Counties: Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire

Close to the M6 Toll, M42, A38 & A5 and with Birmingham city centre just 20 miles to the south, our new Lichfield facility is ideally located for convenient access to all major business centres in the Midlands.

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Tamworth, Leicester, Peterborough, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Coventry, Cannock, Telford, Cardiff, Swansea, Newport
• Counties: West Midlands, East Midlands, Shropshire, Wales

Our South-Western facility based just outside Chippenham near to the M4, combines all our usual services and houses our main document scanning Bureau.

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Scanning Services – confidential bureau scanning, document scanning, microfilm conversion, digital mailroom
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Bristol, Bath, Cardiff, Exeter, Plymouth, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Swindon, Swansea
• Counties: Avon, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, South Wales

Located within one of the principal industrial/office locations in Bracknell, and serving West London and the South West, our new Southern facility has excellent links with the M3 and M4, and the M25, just 13 miles away.

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: Reading, Basingstoke, Southampton, Portsmouth, Brighton & Hove, High Wycombe, Oxford, Slough, Salisbury, Bournemouth, Winchester, Marlow, Eastleigh, Camberley, Farnborough, Wokingham, Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Plymouth, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Swindon
• Counties: Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Dorset, Avon, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire

Our new Basildon site is located 8 miles east of the M25, between the A127 and A13. Specifically equipped for the correct environmental storage of media, this site is ideal for clients located both in the City of London and in the South East of England.

Services offered at this location:

• Media Management – secure off-site media storage/archiving, media transportation, media destruction, media degaussing & online media tracking
• Document Management – secure off-site document storage/archiving, document retrieval & transportation, document scanning, document destruction & online document tracking
• Secure Courier – secure courier services, secure document & media transportation
• SWITCH – secure, confidential backup media swap/exchange & transportation service

Areas covered by this site:

• Cities: City of London, East London, Croydon, Crawley, Brighton, Gillingham, Southend, Canterbury, Ashford, Dover, Norwich, Ipswich, Chelmsford, Colchester, Harlow, Cambridge, Watford
• Counties: Middlesex, Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk

Your media is delicate, and vitally important to your business. That’s why we take great care to store it in the perfect environment: secure, controlled, designed specifically to provide you with maximum peace of mind.

All your media are carefully and methodically scanned, verified and racked. A full and dynamically updated inventory of all items in store is held by DRS – this database details the item serial number, client short-code, date received, return date (if applicable), rack location, previous movement history, and is available 24/7 to our clients via DRS Media Online.

Media Storage

• Anonymous – no company signs
• High security media vault construction
• SEAP 3 Class B and high security steel doors used in media vault areas
• Perimeter Fence with PAC-controlled vehicle access gate
• ADPRO Fast-trace Internal and external CCTV
• PAC Access control
• VESDA Fire detection
• REDWALL/REDWIDE perimeter intruder detection
• Loading bay ‘airlock’
• Fixed, zoom and dome cameras linked via ADSL (ISDN back-up) to a dedicated 24/7 monitoring service
• Stable Air Conditioned Environment: 18 Degree C +_ 2 Degrees
• Humidity Controlled – to less than 50% relative humidity
• Private Confidential Vaults with Fire Suppression available on request

Media Transportation

• A fleet of over 60 double-skinned secure and unmarked vans
• 24/7 emergency returns and scheduled runs available 365 days a year
• All DRS drivers all are security cleared. All vehicles have:
  • Dead locks
  • Real-time satellite tracking
  • Immobilisers
• ALL DRS staff carry photographic ID and wear uniforms with a company logo – but no company name
• All staff permanent DRS employees – no temps
• 6 monthly automated driving licence checks for all DRS staff

Media Destruction

DRS is particularly skilled at secure media destruction. We can offer degaussing or physical destruction, either separately or in combination, and you can specify an inventory of items destroyed, or witness the destruction itself. Either way, you’ll be provided with a certificate of destruction. We can destroy any volume of media, from single items to bulk, and we can either destroy materials we store on your behalf, or collect media from you for destruction.

Degaussing

DRS use a SV5000 Degausser (pictured below) to perform the data erasure. The SV5000 Degausser has been approved by the UK Government and meets the specified requirements of CESG Degaussing Standard.

Physical Destruction

DRS employs the expertise of a member of United Kingdom Security Shredding Association (UKSSA) to undertake the physical destruction of media – the process by which the media is shredded and crushed to granular level. The UKSSA stipulates and enforces the highest standards in confidential data destruction and the manner in which it is undertaken, including compliance with BS 8470.

Quotations are available on request for any of the above options. DRS is always flexible and willing to discuss any specific requirement.

DRS Media Online

Out of sight is not necessarily out of mind. Many of our customers enjoy being able to keep track of their media through our innovative Media Online system.

This sophisticated, but simple-to-use online system allows you excellent control over your off-sited media:

• View your entire off-site inventory
• Request items from storage
• Search for items
• Analyse and compare
• View media movements
• Request inventory reports by email

Important Note

No actual Client Data is visible or transmitted by the DRS Media Online System. The DRS Media Online System is a database of media and transit case external serial numbers, from which no information on, or as to the contents of which, can be deduced. The primary functions of the DRS Media Online System are to view the inventory of current items in storage, view the movement history of a particular item of media and to select items for return.

Media Management Locations

• Basildon, Essex
• Bracknell, Berkshire
• Bristol, Avon
• Dudley, West Midlands
• Heywood, Manchester
• Wakefield, West Yorkshire
• Bathgate, Scotland

DRS is one of the UK’s leading off-site media & document storage companies. Founded in 1984, and family-run ever since, we offer a highly confidential, secure, bespoke service to a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major commercial enterprises, from the public to the private sectors.

We’re based in Greater Manchester, and six other depots cover the whole of the UK, from Scotland to Southern England. And we’re not standing still: we’ve got new depots planned, and major investment in technology and infrastructure is in the pipeline.

What will remain constant, however, is our dedication to ensuring you never need worry about the status of your media or documents. Whether it is the supply of media, storage and retrieval, secure transportation, document scanning or confidential destruction, your peace of mind is paramount.

As is the discretion with which we operate.

You’re in safe hands with DRS.