1. At least one machine-readable medium comprising a set of instructions that, in response to being executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to: group a plurality of application objects into a dataset based on application object data for each of the plurality of application objects; assign an application policy to the dataset; implement the application policy on each of the plurality of application objects and on each of a plurality of underlying storage objects for the plurality of application objects; receive application object data comprising graph metadata and graph data for each of the plurality of application objects; and group the plurality of application objects into the dataset based on the graph metadata and graph data for each of the plurality of application objects.