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Walrus is revolutionizing storage abstraction by moving beyond the rigid, infrastructure-centric models of traditional solutions. Instead of forcing developers to think in terms of disks, tiers, or buckets, Walrus introduces a flexible, application-centric approach.

Its breakthrough is an intelligent, unified object descriptor that acts like a rich, dynamic label for data. This descriptor can encapsulate not just basic metadata, but also critical application-level context—like the associated project environment, compliance requirements, lifecycle policies, and performance expectations. You define what the data needs, not where it lives.

The system then uses this intent-based description to autonomously manage the data's placement across heterogeneous storage backends (object, block, file). It dynamically optimizes for cost, performance, and locality, all while presenting a simple, consistent API. By describing what rather than managing where, Walrus sets a new standard: it makes storage truly adaptive, reducing operational complexity and aligning infrastructure directly with application logic.